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Alpha Architecture Reference Manual
1st Edition - July 7, 1992
Author: Alpha Architecture Committee
Language: English
eBook ISBN:9781483294339
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This is the authoritative reference on Digital Equipment Corporation's new 64-bit RISC Alpha architecture. Written by the designers of the internal Digital specifications, this…Read more
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This is the authoritative reference on Digital Equipment Corporation's new 64-bit RISC Alpha architecture. Written by the designers of the internal Digital specifications, this book contains complete descriptions of the common architecture required for all implementations and the interfaces required to support the OSF/1 and OpenVMS operating systems.
System Managers, software designers interested in the Alpha architecture
Common Architecture; Basic Architecture; Instruction Formats; Instruction Descriptions; System Architecture and Programming Implications; Common PALcode Architecture; Console Subsystem Overview; Input/Output; Architected System Interface; OpenVMS Alpha Software: Introduction to OpenVMS on Alpha; OpenVMS PALcode Descriptions; Memory Management; Process Structure; Internal Processor Registers; Exceptions, Interrupts, and Machine Checks; DEC OSF/1 Alpha Software: Introduction; PALcode Instruction Descriptions; Memory Management; Process Structure; Exceptions and Interrupts; Appendix A: Software Considerations; Appendix B: IEEE Floating-Point Conformance; Appendix C: Instruction Encodings
No. of pages: 600
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: July 7, 1992
Imprint: Digital Press
eBook ISBN: 9781483294339
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Alpha Architecture Committee
Affiliations and expertise
The membership of this committee represents all the computer engineering disciplines at Compaq Computer Corporation.
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