I am about to buy a Sparc architecture manual, but before I do:

- does the V9 manual cover the V7/V8 architectures as well?


I have a need right now to know the instruction set details for my
SparcStation IPC (which sparc version is that?), but I'm also curious about
UltraSparc enough to want to buy the V9 manual.  However, if the V9 manual
doesn't cover the system-level register window under/overflow antics of the
V7/V8 in addition to the user-mode traps of the V9 then I'm doing myself
a disservice.

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