"Now Available, the Authoritative Source on the Alpha Architecture"

ALPHA ARCHITECTURE REFERENCE MANUAL edited by Richard L. Sites

Burlington, MA (July 6, 1992) -- Digital Press is pleased to  announce the
publication of the ALPHA ARCHITECTURE REFERENCE  MANUAL, Edited by Richard
L. Sites of Digital Equipment  Corporation. This is the authoritative
reference on the new 64-bit  RISC architecture of Digital Equipment
Corporation.

"Alpha is Digital's response to the challenges of 21st century  computing.
It represents the culmination of the company's  knowledge and belief about
how the next generations of computers  should be built."                  
                                  

--  From the Foreword by Bob Supnik, Corporate Consultant and Vice
President, Digital Equipment Corporation

Written by the engineers who developed the Alpha specifications,  the ALPHA
ARCHITECTURE REFERENCE MANUAL describes the common  architecture required
of all Alpha implementations as well as the  special instructions required
to support the OSF/1 and OpenVMS  operating systems.  The book is required
reading for software  developers, system managers, system analysts and
system  programmers.

The ALPHA ARCHITECTURE REFERENCE MANUAL is divided into three  parts. Part
I describes the instruction-set architecture, and is  largely
self-contained for readers involved with compilers or  assembly language
programming.  Parts II and III describe the  supporting PALcode routines
for the OSF/1 and OpenVMS operating  systems. Additional appendices
describe software considerations,  IEEE floating point conformance, and
instruction encodings. A  complete index makes it easy to access specific
architectural  details.

Richard L. Sites is Senior Consultant Engineer in the  Semiconductor
Engineering Group of Digital Equipment Corporation.   He received a B.S.
in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute  of Technology, a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Stanford  University, and has studied Computer
Architecture at the  University of North Carolina.  The holder of several
patents, he  was responsible for the development of the Alpha processor 
architecture and for binary translation technology.

1992 Copyright, Softbound, 600 pages, $34.95, Ordering Number  EY-L520E-DP,
PH ISBN 0-13-033663-7.

ORDERING INFORMATION

U.S. customers can purchase the ALPHA ARCHITECTURE REFERENCE  MANUAL at
technical and reference bookstores throughout the U.S.,  where it is
distributed by Prentice Hall, or directly from Digital  Press by calling
1-800-DIGITAL (1-800-344-4825). The book is also  available through the
Digital Electronic Store. The U.S. list  price is $34.95. The Prentice
Hall ISBN is 0-13-033663-7. and the Digital Press order number is
EY-L520E-DP.

Customers outside the U.S. can order the book through their local  Digital
training facility, or through local technical and  reference bookstores.
Prentice Hall distributes Digital Press  books worldwide to bookstores,
libraries, colleges and  universities.  

Faculty members can contact Prentice Hall for review copies.

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