Microprocessors: A Programmers View (Computing That Works)

Discusses 80386 and 68030 microprocessors, reduced instruction set computers, MIPS, SPARC, Intel, and IBM systems, and the future of microprocessor design This book is suitable for an advanced level course which is concerned with comparing and contrasting the many competing microprocessor designs currently available. It concentrates on the interesting features that distinguish the most important chips and emphasises the comparison of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) and CISC (Complete Instruction Set Computer) chips A description and comparison of the architecture that characterizes today's advanced PC and workstation microprocessors - Intel's 80386, Motorola's 68030, DEC's MIPS chip. It provides information on IBM's new RISC chip and Intel's I860.