Geraint.Jones@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones) (02/27/90)
If you're the sort of person who after having read ``The Compiler Writer's
Guide'' still finds himself asking what the instructions do, you may find
Inside the Transputer
D. A. P. Mitchell, J. A. Thompson, G. A. Manson, G. R. Brookes
Blackwell Scientific Publications (1990)
ISBN 0 632 01689 2, UK Price L14.95
more approachable. It has about ninety pages of discussion, with some example
programs, and then getting on for a hundred and fifty pages of the traditional
sort of instruction-by-instruction guide to what's in which register when. You
know the sort of book that has the name of the instruction at the top of the
page and the opcode in the top-right hand corner, and pictures of registers and
all that jazz.
Of course, if you're ths sort of person who was rather taken with the idea that
INMOS might have got away with selling the chip without ever telling you what
its instruction set was, it will leave you cold.
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