30 Sep
2012
30 Sep
'12
3:27 p.m.
On Sep 30, 2012, at 18:16, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
Sure. If you want to be pedantic, a processor isn't more than
a large state machine. The primary significance of the name
is in how you intend to use it.
- Dave
For that
matter, It's difficult to distinguish between 'microcode'
and a 'state machine'.
In theory. In practice, there is usually little doubt - while the two
formalisms may be formally identical, there are, as reflected in the
terminological difference, differences of attitude and style between
the two.