On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, David Jones wrote:

> I am about to buy a Sparc architecture manual, but before I do:
> - does the V9 manual cover the V7/V8 architectures as well?

The V9 manual contains an appendix section which iterates
differences/additions from V8.  Nothing is mentioned about V7 in the V9
_or_ V8 manuals.  However, you won't need the V7 documentation as your
SPARC IPC is V8.  If you are on a tight budget and can't buy both books
just for the heck of it, it looks like you could glean the entire V8
architecture from the appendix.

-J