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From: des@uno.edu (Dan Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: r3000 and r4000 Arch books for public eyes yet?
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Date: 12 Apr 91 15:29:26 GMT
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In article <399@comperex.oz>, burn@comperex.oz (Burn Alting) writes:
>In article <2291@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> rex@cluster.cs.su.oz (Rex Di Bona) writes:
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>[Stuff Deleted]
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>>Does MIPS still have (ever had??) the policy of distributing one of these
>>with each machine? We got a whole stack when we bought a number of machines,
>>and given the perpetual calls for SPARC architecture manuals I think
>>this is (would be??) a good idea.
>
>MIPS used to and still does distribute the "MIPS R2000/R3000 RISC Architecture
>Manual" with a RISC/os Manual Set (Programmers Documentation Set) as opposed
>to the system itself.
>
[Still more stuff deleted]

Sorry, I should have made myself a bit more explicit.  I've read the
R2000 book and found it to be a very good source of how the
instruction set worked.  And I appreciate finding out that they have a
new version of the book out.  What I was really asking was "Does there
exist a 'Users Guide' similar to the Motorola series books for the
68K."  These books are the 'bibles' for anyone interested in designing
boards and writing operating systems for these chips.  I.E. Is MIPS
making the software AND hardware interface specs available.  The R2000
book is good for the system side of design but the hardware end would
be interesting too.

Hope this clears up my original question a bit..

Dan Smith -- Network Software Body @ Uno.Edu