20 Jul
2016
20 Jul
'16
6:56 p.m.
On Jul 20, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Swift Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Paul Koning wrote:
PALcode sounds right. I think "epicode" was the same thing, but in PRISM --
which was the second RISC chip architecture DEC built, and canceled before shipping it.
(Titan was the first; Alpha the third.)
paul
The closest to microcode I'd ever heard of
before is the "epicode" in
Alpha. Or was that Prism?
PALcode? That's sort of an amalgamation of microcode and emulation, IIRC.
I don't know what 'epicode' is, though.