A practical guide to computer architecture - based on Alpha, the 64-bit processor. It introduces assemblers, debuggers, instruction formats, addressing, branch instructions, logical operations, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This book is an excellent reference source for any programmer/developer working on any server that is powered by the ALPHA processor, desiring to know what really goes on under the hood. The only negative point that I can make is the information on Windows NT platform is outdated since Microsoft doesn't support NT on Alpha anymore.The examples are well done in C and ALPHA assembler. The author covers both the VMS & Unix platforms.I highly recommend the use of this book. It stays close by on my bookshelf.
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