[comp.arch] References wanted on RISC architectures.

dheeraj@nile.cs.umd.edu (Dheeraj Sanghi) (09/15/89)

Hi,
	I wish to learn about RISC architectures, especially
the MIPS, and SPARC. I would really appreciate, if someone could
give me pointers to the books, journals, articles etc. explaining
these (and other) RISC architectures, and also comparing them.

	I wish to apologize in advance, if this has been asked
in recent past, but I don't read this newsgroup on a regular
basis.

Thanks,
-dheeraj

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mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) (09/16/89)

>	I wish to learn about RISC architectures, especially
>the MIPS, and SPARC. I would really appreciate, if someone could
>give me pointers to the books, journals, articles etc. explaining
>these (and other) RISC architectures, and also comparing them.

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