The 80386/387 architecture / Stephen P. Morse, Eric J. Isaacson and Douglas J. Albert.

By: Morse, Stephen P .

Contributor(s): Albert, Douglas J | Isaacson, Eric J .

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BookPublisher: New York : Wiley, 1987Description: xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0471853526 .Subject(s): Intel 80386 (Microprocessor)

DDC classification: 621.381958

Contents:

Introduction -- Machine organization -- Basic instruction set -- Floating-point computation -- Segmentation and compatibility -- The operating system's view -- High-speed floating-point computation.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A comprehensive guide to this new microprocessor, which will be standard equipment in the new IBM PC's and compatibles. The authors describe the 80386 and its numerical co-processor, the 80387, including machine organization, memory structure, and I/O and register design. Morse (who helped to design the Intel 8086 chip) and company explain all the details of the 80386's instruction set, the evolution of segmentation and what it's used for, how to make programs resistant to numerical errors, how to interface hardware to 80386/387 systems, plus new operating system features. The 80386/387 is expected to dramatically affect personal computing applications, from ordinary spreadsheets to games to computer-aided drafting and artificial intelligence.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Machine organization -- Basic instruction set -- Floating-point computation -- Segmentation and compatibility -- The operating system's view -- High-speed floating-point computation.

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CHOICE Review

A detailed guide to the 386 processor that is the basis of the newest IBM-compatible personal computers. It is both a valuable guide and a reference source to anyone who will work with these computers at the machine level. The authors have experience at Intel and know the subject well. The style of presentation is informal but clear (a pointer variable is contrasted with a ``pointee''). Without being verbose, the book reads more like a tutorial than a specification. The first two chapters are a general introduction that include number representation (binary and hex), memory structure, registers, operands, and addressing modes. (The history of microcomputers is a history of Intel chips that totally neglects the 6502 and the early Apples; it is useful as a summary of the Intel chips.) Later chapters detail the basic instruction set and floating point computation. Paging and segmentation, multitasking and other operating system matters, and finally high-speed floating point processing with the Weitek coprocessor complete the body of the book. Four appendixes provide quick reference to details; a fifth is a comprehensive and useful glossary. The index is thorough. For college and university libraries.-L.N. Cassel, Villanova University