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Documentation - It's a good thing....The documentation for Magic-1, unfortunately, is scattered about the website a bit more than would be ideal. However, we'll try to organize it a bit under this page. Magic-1 Schematics...are here. Magic ArchitectureI wasn't entirely faithful in keeping a distinction between an architecture and an implementation. The following web page is an attempt to describe a Magic architecture, of which Magic-1 is a particular implementation. Magic-1 MicroarchitectureThe microarchitecture document describes some of the low-level design choices made when creating an instance of the Magic architecture - Magic-1. Magic-1 MicrocodeMore than just documentation, the microcode documents are actually the source code for the microcode used both in the Magic-1 simulators and the actual [E]PROMs. The following document is a root to a series of microcode versions. The software build process parses these html files and extracts source code and tokens and then munges them all together. It's been years since I set this up. I no longer understand how it works.... Magic-1 Software StackThe documentation here is somewhat lacking. I originally kept all of the source code on this website, but that hasn't worked out as well as I'd hoped. The documentation here is likely a bit out of date, but when I begin the Minix port in earnest, I'll revise and bring it up to date Development Diaries and Miscellaneous DocumentationBack in 2001 when I stared this website, I began jotting down notes for myself. This process morphed into a diary, or I guess you might even call it a blog now (I wasn't aware of the term back in 2001). This page has links to the diaries from 2001 through 2004. Note, though, that during 2004 I broke the diaries out into individual ones for the construction of each wire-wrap card, as well as hardware and software bringup. For a while, I updated both dairies, but eventually stopped wiring a separate diary. Anyway, here it is: |