28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
3:27 p.m.
> But nobody got into the really weird internals
that have made the
> industry
> so fascinating. Go back to the real early days, like the Atlas,
> that let
> you build your instruction set from scratch using micro-code.
My first post in this thread mantioned the PERQ, which is completely
soft-microcoded. And where you, the user, were expected to want to modify
the microcode.
-tony