Re: Algorithmics LTD P4000i, usermanual?

[Warner Losh <imp%bsdimp.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 4:40 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro%orcam.me.uk@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jul 2023, Mouse wrote:
>
> > >> [...] the Algorithmics LTD P4000i board [...]
> > > I have uploaded a copy of "P-4000i User's Manual" to
> > > <ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/Algorithmics/>.
> >
> > Now _that_ is my idea of good hardware documentation.  If I felt I
> > could afford the costs (physical space and temptation), I would be
> > looking for one.
>
>  Unsurprisingly.  The company was formed back in ~1989 by a small group of
> great engineers from former Whitechapel Workstations company.  I worked
> with them in my MIPS UK days in mid 2000s, soon after Algorithmics was
> acquired by MIPS Technologies to form the UK R&D site.  Fond memories.
>
>  The manual must have been written by Dominic Sweetman, who's had a
> distinctive, comprehensible writing style, cf. "See MIPS Run" (which I
> highly recommend to anyone (still) interested in the MIPS architecture).
>

Seconded. Make sure you get the most recent edition, though, since a number
of things have changed in MIPS land since the first edition.

Warner