Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming
Guy Sotomayor
ggs at shiresoft.com
Thu Sep 17 23:19:46 CDT 2015
On 9/17/15 8:55 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
>
> I think the later X86 machines have a tiny block of patch microcode
> that is available to the OS to put special routines into.
>
Certainly not Intel CPUs. All of the microcode patches are loaded via
special instruction sequences
(described in the SDM). The microcode patch RAM is in the CPU and not
visible to S/W.
TTFN - Guy
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