Hardware and Architectures -- A Subject Catalogue

General and Indices

CPUs

Indices and General Information

• CPU Info & System Performance Summary
• CPU Info Center
• CPU Comparisons (Benchmarks)
  • SPECmarks for various machines
  • The Performance Database Server
  • PDS Reports

Power PC

• Motorola PowerPC WWW Server
• Power PC News
  • Keyword Search Engine
  • THE POWERPC ARCHITECTURE: WHITE PAPER
  • POWEROPEN ENVIRONMENT WHITE PAPER
  • OPENDOC - THE GATEWAY TO A BRAVE NEW WORLD?
  • HITACHI CLANS WARRING OVER RISC PROCESSOR STRATEGY in August 19th 1994 volume 1 issue 12
  • August 5th 1994 volume 1 issue 11, including Information about free trials to leading Publications, Special Reports Available, and usual PowerPC News, Computerwire, Feature Articles, PowerPC Resources, Commercial Information, ...
• Power PC FAQs
  • A more hypertextual version
  • A less hypertextual version
• New PowerPC 603 and 602 (in Japanese)

Pentium and Its Predecessors

• Latest FDIV Information in Intel
• The bug of Pentium (Intel's Reply)
• The Pentium Papers -- A collection of documents associated with the Pentium Division Bug.
• (4,195,835 x 256) / (3,145,727 / 256): Correct solution: 87,413.1, Defected Pentium returns 87,407.9.

Miscellaneous

• Comparisons of Macintosh and PC, or Comparisons of 680XX, Power PC and Intel's CPUs (ftped through Software Catalog in Nexor)

Vector/Parallel Supercomputers

• SX-4 -- NEC's vector supercomputer
  • In English
  • In Japanese
• Cray Research Internet Information Server, including information on T3D, C90, M90, J916, EL90, Supersrever 6400 Systems, FDDI, HIPPI, ...

PC Hardware

• PC Hardware FAQ at Ohio Univ.

Peripherals

FAQ of comp.arch.storage

• Part 1
• Part 2

IDE and ATA Interface to PC's

• Fast ATA and Fast ATA-2
• ATA WWW Site of the comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, including FAQs
• Enhanced IDE Faces Many Challenges by Tai Patwardham -- A Technical Paper
• EIDE (ATA) FAQs
  • Large IDE Mini Howto for Linux users (at Hitachi)
  • Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA/ATA-2 FAQ: A Structured Version, and Ohio Univ. Version
• An FTP Site with many IDE/ATA Info
• See Windows NT and IDE (ATA) Disks for this topic.

SCSI Interface to PC's

• FAQ of comp.periphs.scsi: Part 1 and Part 2
• Adaptec Desktop SCSI Host Adapter Product Guide

Miscellanea

• Clockless Logic