Chapter 1 PA-RISC 2.0 Architecture

Chapter 1 presents some of the important features of the PA-RISC architecture, still the predominant hardware platform for HP-UX. It covers the register set and how the registers are used, then explains virtual memory concepts, address translation and caching, the mechanisms provided by the architecture to support virtual memory, and some of the most common PA-RISC instructions and their use.

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