From - Tue Sep 02 08:34:45 1997 Newsgroups: comp.arch.arithmetic,comp.arch Path: news.mitre.org!blanket.mitre.org!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ix.netcom.com!zalman From: zalman@netcom.com (Zalman Stern) Subject: Re: Q: any architectures with a 'sign' (=x/abs(x)) function? Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.arch.arithmetic,comp.arch Organization: Netcom On-Line Services X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 02:24:08 GMT Lines: 19 Sender: zalman@netcom3.netcom.com Xref: news.mitre.org comp.arch.arithmetic:2969 comp.arch:79340 Henry Baker (hbaker@netcom.com) wrote: : Cool! (Kewl??) Does DEC (or anyone else) have the Alpha instruction set : documentation on the web someplace? Does anyone have a canonical : academic bibliographic reference? Lots of stuff off: http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/dsc-library.html#alpha In particular the complete architecture manual at: http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/alphahb2.pdf (The also have PostScript files.) There are tons of other references including the Feb. 1993 issue of CACM covering Alpha shortly after the architecture was introduced. Dick Sites is the primary author to search on. Also check out http://www.bh.com/bookscat/booksus/Detail.CFM?BOOKS__ISBN=1555581307 for Dileep Bhandarkar's book "Alpha Implementations and Architecture." -Z-