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Perry Kivolowitz
4f02c5fc66 section_1/kickstart: proofing pass
Copyedits only; no technical content added. Changes:

- subject-verb agreement: "idea of registers were introduced" -> "was"
- "operate as the speed" -> "operate at the speed"
- fixed ungrammatical "typing as apart from X, Y is Z" (now "typing:
  apart from X, Y is Z")
- comma after "x30" in list; replaced misleading claim "x31 is also
  not available" with "x31 has a special role (explained later)".
  x31 is not unavailable -- it encodes SP or XZR depending on
  instruction context, which the earlier phrasing obscured
- "hundreds of instructions each potentially has" -> "each potentially
  with" (agreement)
- "an mnemonic" -> "a mnemonic" (/n/ is a consonant sound)
- "a concrete examples" singular/plural typo
- de-duplicated back-to-back "For example" in Mixing Register Types

Rejected: leaving the "x31 is not available" line alone -- it's an
intro chapter, but "not available" reads as "doesn't exist", which
will contradict later chapters that use SP and XZR. Kept other
simplifications (informal "that big of" phrasing, stylistic comma use)
untouched.
2026-04-19 20:09:07 -05:00
Perry Kivolowitz
73a4abfb8d something changed 2024-02-17 16:17:36 -06:00
Perry Kivolowitz
a7e89718b1 corrected layout of floats for AARCH64 2024-02-15 13:14:59 -06:00
Perry Kivolowitz
d9f4ff4c17 added section header to kickstart 2024-01-31 20:22:07 -06:00
Perry Kivolowitz
652f593ca4 more changes to kick 2024-01-31 07:55:32 -06:00
Perry Kivolowitz
dcd6f4505b added to kickstart text 2024-01-31 07:42:22 -06:00
Perry Kivolowitz
1f6f214778 added kick start 2024-01-30 18:30:04 -06:00