24 Feb
1999
24 Feb
'99
8:36 a.m.
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote:
My first exposure to "WCS" was in the context of microcode - on a VAX-11/750.
I, too, was surprised to see them reuse "WCS" on the A1000, given what it does.
The only place I've seen the term "slushware" used is on the DECmate boxes.
AFAIK, its use there matches your use here.
-ethan
The Kickstart image gets stuffed into the WCS
daughter card in the A1000
Was I the only one bothered by the Amiga guys calling this a Writable
Control Store? Call it slushware, but WCS means microcode to me.