PDP-11/84 System Technical and Reference Manual

This document is the PDP-11/84 System Technical and Reference Manual, published by Digital Equipment Corporation in December 1987.

Its primary purpose is to provide a detailed functional description of the standard PDP-11/84 system.

Key contents include:

• A comprehensive system overview, detailing its components and structure.
• In-depth functional descriptions of the system's major logic elements, including the CPU, memory management, buses, cache operations, and interrupt handling.
• Information on bootstrap and diagnostic ROM programming, covering various commands, EEPROM formats, and boot procedures.
• Detailed instruction timing information for the CPU and floating-point operations.
• Appendices outlining hardware and software differences between the PDP-11/84 and other PDP-11 family systems, configuration register modifications, ROM code differences across versions, and multiboot ROM control transfer.