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The documents of this site as printable books, each with a title page, contents and a chapter per document (tools/mkpdf.py, made again on every change).

Book What it holds
P32W Hardware Reference The system, the bus and the cards: theory of operation
The P32W Debug Card The bus tester in slot 0: how it works and how a host uses it
The P32W Bus The backplane: the bus cycle, mastership, interrupts, every pin and signal
P32W Instruction Set The user ISA, the system architecture and every instruction
P32W Programmer's Guide Programs on the bare machine: registers, devices, the boot ROM and its monitor, the tools
P32W Unix Using it, and how it works inside: the kernel, boot, the filesystem, devices, networking
P32W Emulators and Tests p32emu, p32uemu, the gate-level simulations, benchmarks
P32W Design Record Every decision, dated, and what is still to do