[geeks] books on computer architecture

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:07:58PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> I've got my well-thumbed copy of the SPARC architecture handbook lying 
> around at work.  I needed it when I was learning OS internals and the 
> like.  Good book.
 
> Someday, I'm going to go spend some time learning to do assembly-level 
> programming on the SPARC.  It's a fun processor.  Too bad more people 
> don't use the VIS instructions, they are really slick.

I never got around to playing with VIS, but I do like that it doesn't flush
the pipeline on branches.  That's fun to play with.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd