Alpha architecture reference manual : R.L. Sites (ed.), Digital Press, Burlington, MA, 1992. 600 pp., paper, US$34.95, ISBN 0-1303-3663-7.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-4754
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✦ Synopsis
Written by the engineers who developed the Alpha specifications, Alpha Architecture Reference Manual contains complete descriptions of the common architecture required for all implementations and the interfaces required to support the OSF/l and OpenVMS operating systems. Of great interest to software developers, system managers, system analysts and system programmers, this book is organized into three parts.
Part I describes the instruction-set architecture, and is largely self-contained for readers involved with compilers or assembly language programming. Parts II and III describe the supporting PALcode routines for each operating system -the specific operating system PALcode architecture.