On 02/06/18 15:17, allison via cctech wrote:
It was my understanding from using the 730 that there was limited
(really limited) microcode
enough to load the WCS as the tu58 was a serial device (standard tu58)
and the 730 had to
unpack and stuff the WCS.? You need little to do that but far from even
PDP11 instruction set.
The Microcode was loaded was the "what made it a VAX stuff".
Allison
Well something has to load the ucode but whether that's a fixed part of
ucode itself or whether
it's a hardware state machine (or something) that feeds the loaded ucode
into the appropriate
RAM, I don't know. I've never delved that deeply into the relevant FMP sets.
Antonio
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