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The SPARC architecture manual : version 9

Author: David L Weaver; Tom Germond; SPARC International.
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs N.J. : PTR Prentice Hall, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is the industry's only openly defined and evolved RISC architecture. Version 9 is the new 64-bit incarnation of SPARC - the most significant change since SPARC's introduction in 1987! Unlike other RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) designs, SPARC specifies not a hardware implementation ("chip"), but an open, standard architecture belonging to the community of SPARC  Read more...
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SPARC architecture manual.
Englewood Cliffs N.J. : PTR Prentice Hall, c1994
(OCoLC)622682460
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David L Weaver; Tom Germond; SPARC International.
ISBN: 0130992275 9780130992277
OCLC Number: 29847469
Notes: "SAV09R1429309."
Description: xxi, 357 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: SPARC International ; David L. Weaver, Tom Germond, editors.

Abstract:

SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is the industry's only openly defined and evolved RISC architecture. Version 9 is the new 64-bit incarnation of SPARC - the most significant change since SPARC's introduction in 1987! Unlike other RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) designs, SPARC specifies not a hardware implementation ("chip"), but an open, standard architecture belonging to the community of SPARC vendors and users. The SPARC specification is defined by the SPARC Architecture Committee, a technical arm of the computer-maker consortium, SPARC International. Version 9 provides 64-bit data and addressing, support for fault tolerance, fast context switching, support for advanced compiler optimizations, efficient design for Superscalar processors, and a clean structure for modern operating systems. The V9 architecture supplements, rather than replaces, the 32-bit Version 8 architecture. The non-privileged features of Version 9 are upward-compatible from Version 8, so 32-bit application software can execute natively, without modification, on Version 9 systems - no special "compatibility mode" is required. Publication of the Version 9 architecture marks a three-year development effort by SPARC International member companies from a broad cross-section of disciplines.

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