http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html
for a link to intel architecture specification documents

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 2:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Redesigning the Principles of Operation Manual

On 2014-11-14 11:17, Gary Weinhold wrote:
> You know we're all just talking about presentation of information, not the 
> information itself.  So what we want is a flexible (tailorable?) interface to 
> the information, not a change in the information itself.  So with all the 
> advances made in user access to information, we're saying it can never apply 
> to the PoOp information.
>  
Exactly.  "Two columns" is just presentation.  It's a pity that semantics has 
been subsumed by presentation.

Just as a point of reference, how does Intel do it (or AMD or Cyrix or IBM 
supercomputers)?  Probably their Principles of Operation are less targeted at 
end users, but someone still must write the compilers.

-- gil

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