WCS (Writeable Control Store) options were available
for a few models
of PDP11 to allow the user to write microcode.
Some of the earlier VAXen, too. BSD on the VAX-11/750 normally loads a
file (canonically, /pcs750.bin) into the WCS at boot.
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