In closing

The SPARC processor, as described in The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 8 , is the recommended description and standard by which SPARC Version 8 processor chips should be manufactured. To learn the exact details and additional enhancements of your specific SPARC processor, read the hardware specification for that chip.

Now that you've gotten an idea of what the SPARC processor looks like, you are better armed to learn about the SPARC instruction set, which follows .