Alpha Architecture Reference Manual (HP Technologies) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 155558098X ISBN 13: 9781555580988

Publisher: Digital Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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From the Publisher

The third edition reflects the latest implementations of the architecture, including the 21164A, 21164PC, and 21264. Some of the extensions to the architecture and the enhancement to the technical content include: new byte and word load, store and sign-extend operations; new multimedia instructions; new population enumeration and floating-point square root instructions; new instructions to improve data cache efficiency and updated Windows NT section.The Alpha chip is the fastest chip on the marketplace today. It runs Windows NT, UNIX and OpenVMS operating systems. New base-level server configurations provide four times the memory of current systems.

About the Author

The Alpha Architecture Committee represents all the disciplines of computer engineering at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Digital Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 155558098X
• ISBN 13: 9781555580988
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 600