PowerPC Microprocessor Developer's Guide (Sams Developer's Guide)

This reference and how-to guide introduces the technology behind the PowerPC chip and shows readers how to take advantage of its strength. For developers and power users, this book leads the way to the next phase in software development. Demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages of RISC and CISC development Covers the 601 and 603 members of the microprocessor family The PowerPC chip is the future of computing. This book will show readers how exploit the power behind the chip. The reference and how-to guide for developers delivers the knowledge required to develop applications optimized for the PowerPC environment. Disk includes code from the book and utilities available at the time of publication. This text shows readers how to exploit the power behind the PowerPC chip by programming part of their code with the PowerPC assembly language.