25 Feb
2002
25 Feb
'02
7:59 p.m.
Because of the NatSemi 32000 manuals described on my web site
at http://www.threedee.com/jcm/library/, I received this inquiry:
"I am collecting manuals for RISC-type processors of the early 1990s.
I haven't been able to find Power/Power 2 (the processor/s inside the
IBM RS/6000 computers)... Why is that? "
I know nothing of those machines. Can someone help me with
an answer I can forward?
- John
26 Feb
26 Feb
11:32 a.m.
On 26-Feb-2002 John Foust wrote:
"I am collecting manuals for RISC-type processors
of the early 1990s.
I haven't been able to find Power/Power 2 (the processor/s inside the
IBM RS/6000 computers)... Why is that? "
I know nothing of those machines. Can someone help me with
an answer I can forward?
Shlomo Weiss, James, E. Smith: POWER And PowerPC
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (1994)
I returned it to the library just yesterday, so I don't know the
ISBN ;-)
There is at least one "IBM Journal of Research and Development" which deals
with the POWER-Architecture and two downloadable IBM Redbooks ("The Power3
Introduction and Tuning Guide" and "The Power4 Introduction...").
bye
Thilo
27 Feb
27 Feb
2 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, John Foust wrote:
"I am collecting manuals for RISC-type processors
of the early 1990s.
I haven't been able to find Power/Power 2 (the processor/s inside the
IBM RS/6000 computers)... Why is that? "
Good luck finding manuals for the POWER or POWER2 (or POWER3 or POWER3-II
or POWER3-III or POWER3-IV or POWER4). IBM considers them trade secret.
You will be able to find manuals for ROMP fairly easily, though, and that
is more "early 90's" than POWER.
Peace... Sridhar
28 Feb
28 Feb
1:30 p.m.
Good luck finding manuals for the POWER or POWER2 (or
POWER3 or POWER3-II
or POWER3-III or POWER3-IV or POWER4). IBM considers them trade secret.
You will be able to find manuals for ROMP fairly easily, though, and that
is more "early 90's" than POWER.
Look for IBM publication SA23-2619 "RISC System/6000 Technology". This
1/2 inch think book is mostly marketting material, but with an extremely
technical edge. It covers the first POWER architecture and its relation
to AIX. While it does not have pinouts, electric charateristics, and
other super detail, it does have block diagrams and crude timing diagrams
- enough that it pretty much shows how the POWER chipset works. It even
has nice color pictures of the dies.
This book is not IBM classified in any way, interestingly.
William Donzelli
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