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- This subtree contains documents covering various technical
- information about SGI's software and hardware.
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- NOTE:
- The HTML versions of the 16 Manuals on the v6.0 DT may not be 100% accurate.
- For anything unrecognizable or confusing, consult the accompanying
- PostScript version.
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- * 64bit:
- information on 64bit machine architectures and programming issues:
- MIPSpro(TM) 64-Bit Porting and Transition Guide (IRIX 6.2
- version), Preparing for the 64 bit Future of IRIX, Native 64-bit
- Subprogram Interface for MIPS Architectures, and a C & Fortran
- variable sizes file.
-
- * ANSI-C:
- contains files comprising a technical review of the book, The
- Annotated ANSI C Standard, and the text originally published as
- the ANSI C rationale with useful information about the origin,
- creation and meaning of the ISO C standard.
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- * audio:
- contains audio documentation including "Audio and Music
- Applications for Silicon Graphics Systems", SGI Desktop Audio
- Hardware Performance Specifications (Typical), Indigo, Indigo2,
- Indy, "Unofficial SGI MIDI page", and "Audio Interchange File
- Format AIFF-C, A revision to include compressed audio data".
-
- * cc_c++_make_csh:
- a collection of documents relating to compilers, [p]make, and
- [c]shell: C++ EXCEPTION HANDLING, The Silicon Graphics Delta C++
- Compiler, Programming in C++, Rules and Recommendations, Silicon
- Graphics Inc, Common Makefile include files, Notes, C
- pre-processor "cheat sheet" quick ref., C-shell, make, and pmake
- quick references, and Silicon Graphics Makefile Conventions.
-
- * DevDriver:
- IRIX 6.2 and IRIX 5.3 versions of the Device Driver Programming
- Guide, as well as inst-able images of the two pre-IRIX5.3 SGI
- manuals for the IRIX Device Driver Programming Guide and the IRIX
- Device Driver Reference Pages.
-
- * DevNews:
- At last we begin to include selected articles from the Developer
- News publication
-
- * Dwarf:
- IRIX 6.2 revisions of documentation on DWARF, a binary
- debugging-information format. The IRIX 6 compilers produce
- debugging information in this format rather than the format used
- in IRIX 5.2 and earlier releases. DWARF defines, in detail, a way
- for compilers to tell debuggers about source programs.
-
- * ELF:
- information pertaining to ELF, the Executable and Linking Format
- employed in IRIX 5 and beyond including, Controlling a Program's
- Layout with ELSPEC,, and all the IRIX 6.2 man pages found using
- the command, apropos elf.
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- * GIOdriver:
- contains information needed to write a device driver for a GIO
- board.
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- * HiEndGfx:
- the beginnings of documentation relevant to current "High-End"
- Graphics Machines, so far includes "IMPACT Graphics Subsystem,"
- from the Impact Technical Report, "Fast VisSim On Impact
- Graphics", Onyx tables covering, "General", "Graphics", and
- "Platform" Specifications, and relevant links to the "OpenGL: From
- The EXTensions To The SOLutions" Training Course materials.
-
- * I18N:
- contains documentation on SGI's implementation of software
- Internationalization. These are only draft versions.
-
- * irix:
- contains general information about IRIX not "release-specific",
- and Operating Systems issues including Automating and Scheduling
- Jobs with Cron, Local and Remote File Lockingñ, Restarting
- Sendmail, Getting Started With Socket Programmingñ, Supported
- Releasesñ, Getting and Setting User Context Within a Process, a
- paper on Caching and Locality and its ancillary "The Paging Game,"
- as well as 4 periodic tables of IRISes: Workstation/Client,
- Challenge Server, Onyx Family, Power Challenge.
- ñ includes source code included as broken out C code in
- toolbox/src/exampleCode/irix
-
- * irix5.2:
- information relevant to IRIX 5.2 and a few of its associated
- Products including: colormap usage differences between 5.1* and
- 5.2, HIPPI documentation, IndigoMagic Q&A, inPerson docs, major
- changes between IRIX 4.X and 5.2 Installation Guide, IRIS Media
- Libraries product info, 4/94 periodic table, REACT in IRIX V.5,
- 7/94 patches info, 4.0.1 to 5.2 Software Compatibility Matrix,
- Indigo2 XZ/Extreme stipple bug, and guidelines for the use of the
- /usr/share filesystem.
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- * irix5.3:
- info relevant to IRIX 5.3 including: IRIX 5.3 Data Sheet and
- Technical Specifications, REACT(TM) in IRIX 5.3 Technical Report,
- Using Asynchronous I/O and Direct I/O in IRIX 5.X, Documentation
- Catalog for IRIX 5.3 as of 3/96, and IRIX product information.
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- * irix6.2:
- contains a LARGE collection of IRIX 6.2-based documentation --
- this is one of the cornerstones of the v6.0 DT -- including 64-Bit
- Architecture and Standards Technical Report, all 6 manuals
- comprising the IRIX Admin Manual Set (System Configuration and
- Operation, Disks and Filesystems, Peripheral Devices, Networking
- and Mail, Backup, Security, and Accounting, Software Installation
- and Licensing), IRIX 6.2 New Features List, MIPSpro N32 ABI
- Handbook plus an overview, MIPSpro 64-Bit Porting and Transition
- Guide, 6.2 Device Driver Programming Guide, Programming on Silicon
- Graphics Systems: An Overview, Topics in IRIX Programming, SGITCL
- Programmer's Guide, Documentation Catalog for IRIX 6.2 (current as
- of 3/96), Preparing to Upgrade to IRIX 6.2, The Coff Story -- End
- of Coff Support, and a 6.2 Execution/Compilation Table.
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- * Inventor:
- contains Inventor documentation including: Optimizing Open
- Inventor Applications, Release 2.0, OPEN INVENTOR CORNER, Fun With
- Draggers: Building an Interactive Track Light, Open Inventor Nodes
- Quick Reference Release 2.0, Open Inventor 3d Toolkit, How to
- Write an Open Inventor File Translator, Quick Reference Guide, and
- the man page for the DxfToIv utility.
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- * kernel:
- contains 3 Pipeline articles focusing on kernel issues and
- processes: "Kernel Processes in IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.1," "IRIX
- Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules," and "Kernel Tuning in IRIX
- 5.x and IRIX 6.0.x."
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- * libconv :
- a relatively recent addition to the mathlib subtree, libconv is an
- optimized library available on Silicon Graphics computers. It
- features Convolution for Finite Impulse Response (FIR) and
- Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters, together with
- Correlations.
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- * Mac:
- beginnings of a directory composed of documents useful/relevant to
- Mac Developers including, UNIX TOOLS FOR FORMER MAC DEVELOPERS and
- C++ EXCEPTION HANDLING.
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- * mipsABI:
- documents and patches pertaining to the MIPS ABI Group, Inc.,
- including a FAQ on porting, Conformance and Support Guides. This
- is a 3/96 copy of most of what exists at www.mipsabi.org.
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- * Motif:
- contains a copy of an SGI internal paper on Motif Performance
- Notes.
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- * networking:
- network documentation including: Scalability in the XFS File
- System, XFS - File System Data Sheet and Technical Specifications,
- a group of Pipeline articles: "Using Automount," "Configuration
- and Use of PPP," "Configuring Multiple Network Interfaces on SGI
- Systems," "IRIX 5.3 NFS Version 3," and Asynchronous Transfer
- Mode: Implementations for 1994, Establishing a PPP connection
- using IRIX PPP, and SLIP INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION GUIDE.
-
- * OpenGL:
- A MASSIVE subtree contains MUCHO OpenGL papers, articles,
- tutorials, specifications. A GREAT DEAL of technical information
- is included here. MOST RECENT additions include documentation on
- GLR, an OpenGL render server facility, and the VERY ESSENTIAL
- OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems covering advanced topics
- including extensions, as well as updated revisions -- Version 1.1
- -- of The OpenGL Graphics System: A Specification, and the GLX
- Specification, OpenGL Graphics with the X Window System.
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- * optimization:
- greatly revitalized documentation on optimizing programs now
- includes Optimization for Real-Time Graphics Applications, MIPSpro
- Compiling and Performance Tuning Guide, IRIX 6.2 version of the
- MIPSpro 64-Bit Porting and Transition Guide, and the REACT(TM)
- Real-Time Programmer's Guide, as well as overview descriptions of
- Build-time alternatives relating to ld, and Quickstart,
- Requickstart and tasks performed by RLD, the dynamic linker.
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- * perl:
- the beginnings of documentation relating to perl, the Practical
- Extraction and Report Language, with PERL PATTERNS, and the perl5
- documentation set available on the Silicon Graphics freeware 1.0
- release.
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- * Performer:
- contains "Introducing Performer 2.0" from the Pipeline, the "IRIS
- Performer 2.0 Technical Report", "IRIS Performer 2.0 API", "IRIS
- Performer 2.0 Technical Information", and "IRIS Performer 2.0
- Release Notes".
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- * PROM:
- information relevant to all operations and issues at the PROM
- level of the world.
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- * R10000:
- documentation on the R10000 PROCESSOR including a thumbnail on
- MIPS R10000 (T5) Next Generation Technology, Mips Open RISC
- Technology R10000 Microprocessor Technical Brief, R10000
- Microprocessor User's Manual-Version V1.1 and V1.0, as well as the
- Errata for Mips R10000 Microprocessor User's Manual, V1.0
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- * R4000:
- contains the Pipeline January 1996 article, "Processor Types for
- Indigo, Indigo2 and Indy Systems" with a table listing the first
- and current version of IRIX for a specific R4x00 CPU type, speed,
- and cache size. The R4x00 CPU is used in Indigo, Indy, CHALLENGE
- S, Indigo2 and CHALLENGE M systems.
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- * R8000:
- documentation on the R8000 PROCCESSOR, otherwise known as the IP21
- board. Key to the performance of these systems beyond the R8000
- processor itself are changes to the OS and compiler. The kernel
- now supports 64 bit kernel and user code. Existing Irix 5.2 user
- mode binary objects will continue to run unchanged. User
- applications that need to realize the performance potential of
- this hardware will need to be ported to the 64 bit environment.
-
- * RFC:
- NEW INTERFACE -- VERY boss! Now up to rfc1918
- Internet "Request For Comments" provide the current set of open
- standards used on the Internet, today. To both ensure
- interoperability with other products and prevent re-invention of
- wheels, developers of network apps will find it useful to be
- familiar with, and to the extent possible conform to, applicable
- standards. Examples of available standards are the Simple Network
- Monitoring Protocol (SNMP), Internet Protocol (IP), File Transfer
- Protocol (FTP), and Simple Message Transfer Protocol (SMTP), all
- of which are supported by SGI.
-
- * SiliconStudio:
- information about Silicon Studio, a professional film and video
- production system based on Silicon Graphics workstations,
- specialized video options and third-party software solutions.
- Includes the slide sets from the Entertainment Authoring
- Conference held in L.A., November, 1994.
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- * textureMapping:
- addresses issues pertaining to texture mapping: Fast Shadows and
- Lighting Effects Using Texture Mapping, Texture Mapping as a
- Fundamental Drawing Primitive, Interactive Geometric Image
- Transformation Using Texture Mapping, Accelerated Volume Rendering
- and Tomographic Reconstruction Using Texture Mapping Hardware, and
- Texture Mapping in Technical, Scientific and Engineering
- Visualization.
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- * ViewKit:
- information on the ViewKit software application framework, used by
- many Silicon Graphics software products as well as a growing
- number of third-party applications.
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- * VMEinterface:
- VME interface description for the Personal Iris, 4D100 to 4D400
- series machines, and Crimsons. This paper does NOT include the IO4
- VME in Challenge and Onyx systems.
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- * video:
- contains the SGI Digital Video specification including the data
- format, electrical and mechanical interfaces used to get digital
- video data into and out of the Silicon Graphics platforms via this
- 60-pin connector.
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- * volumeRendering:
- addresses issues pertaining to volume Rendering: Building an
- OpenGL Volume Renderer, Interactive Volume Rendering Using
- Advanced Graphics Architectures, and Accelerated Volume Rendering
- and Tomographic Reconstruction Using Texture Mapping Hardware.
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- * X:
- contains X-based documentation including such topics as Is your X
- code ready for 64-bit?, "Multi-pipe Graphics Configurations",
- X11R6, SGI's enhanced X server, Performance, SGI Window Systems,
- the X11 Input Extension, and more.
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