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From: preston@frisia.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
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Subject: Re: RS/6000 Instruction Set Reference
Keywords: RS/6000, Instruction Set
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Date: 25 May 90 19:30:26 GMT
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campbell@sauron.UUCP (Mark Campbell) writes:
>Does anyone know of any literature describing in detail the
>RS/6000 instruction set?

This isn't the level of detail you're looking for,
but it is very interesting.

Volume 34, Number 1 (January 1990) of the IBM Journal of
Research and Development is devoted to the 6000.
The contents include:

Overview

	The evolution of RISC technology at IBM
		John Cocke and V. Markstein

	The IBM RISC System/6000 processor: Hardware overview
		Bakoglu, Grohoski, and Montoye

Hardware design and architecture

	IBM RISC System/6000 processor architecture
		Oehler and Groves

	Machine organization of the IBM RISC System/6000 processor
		Grohoski

	Design of the IBM RISC System/6000 floating-point execution unit
		Montoye, Hokenek, and Runyon

	Leading-zero anticipator (LZA) in the IBM RISC System/6000
	floating-point execution unit
		Hokenek and Montoye

			(1 cycle to normalize and add!)

	Pseudorandom built-in self-test methodology and implementation
	for the IBM RISC System/6000 processor
		Ratiu and Bakoglu

Instruction scheduling

	Instruction scheduling for the IBM RISC System/6000 processor
		Warren

	Instruction scheduling beyond basic blocks
		Golumbic and Rainish

Innovations in the operating system and functional algorithms

	Managing programs and libraries in AIX Version 3 for
	IBM RISC System/6000 processors
		Auslander

	Evolution of storage facilities in AIX Version 3 for
	IBM RISC System/6000 processors
		Chang, Mergen, Rader, Roberts, and Porter

	Computation of elementary functions on the IBM RISC 
	System/6000 processor
		P. Markstein


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