7 Mar
2017
7 Mar
'17
4:50 p.m.
On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:42 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki via
cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Angelo Papenhoff via cctech wrote:
< snip >
I'm wondering where the MIPS I-IV standards
that are referenced
everywhere are defined. I was able to actually find what seems to be the
IV standard [1] but found no such thing for I-III. I didn't even find
any bibliographic references to them. Did they only exist as printed
books and nobody bothered to scan them? Or are they under copyright?
Would be nice to have them accessible somewhere.
[1]
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15740-f97/public/doc/mips-isa.p…
I have seen a copy of the original R2000 manual once,
in the form of a
collection of pages in a ring binder. That copy may have been lost since.
Silicon manufacturers like IDT, LSI Logic, Performance Semiconductor or
Siemens published their R2000/R3000 (and R2010/R3010 FPA) implementation
manuals though that may serve as a reference; you should be able to track
down scanned copies online.
The book ?MIPS RISC Architecture? by Gerry Kane (ISBN 0-13-584293-X), copyright 1989 by
MIPS Computer Systems, has the following blurb as the preface:
?This book is a comprehensive reference for the MIPS RISC architecture. It describes the
functional characteristics and capabilities of the R2000/R3000 Processors and the
R2010/R3020 floating point accelerators.?
I suspect this is as close to a publicly available architecture reference that exists for
that generation of MIPS processors.
- Rob