Other Useful Books

• For a survey of all IRIX facilities and manuals, see Programming on Silicon Graphics Systems: An Overview. This useful manual, part of the IRIX Developer Option, is new in version 5.3; part number 007-2476-001.

• The WindView(TM) for IRIX Programmer's Guide, part number 007-2824-001, tells how to use a graphical performance analysis tool that can be of great help in debugging and tuning a real-time application on a multiprocessor system.

• The IRIX Device Driver Programmer's Guide, part number 007-0911-060, gives details on all types of device control, including programmed I/O (PIO) and direct memory access (DMA) from the user process, as well as discussing the design and construction of device drivers and other kernel-level modules.

• Administration of a multiprocessor is covered in a family of six books, including

  • IRIX Admin: System Configuration and Operation (007-2859-001)

  • IRIX Admin: Disks and Filesystems (007-2825-001)

  • IRIX Admin: Peripheral Devices (007-2861-001)

• For details of the architecture of the CPU, processor cache, processor bus, and virtual memory, see the MIPS R4000 Microprocessor User's Manual, 2nd Ed. by Joseph Heinrich and other chip-specific documents that are available for downloading from the MIPS home page, http://www.mips.com/HTMLs/Mips_Chip_Rm.html.

• For details of some IRIX system facilities not covered in this book, Topics in IRIX Programming, part number 007-2478-001 and MIPS Compiling and Performance Tuning Guide, 007-2479-001 (both available with the IRIX Developer's Option).

• For programming inter-computer connections using sockets, IRIX Network Programming Guide, part number 007-0810-050.

• For coding functions in assembly language, MIPSpro Assembly Language Programmer's Guide, part number 0072418001.