5 May
2025
5 May
'25
5:09 p.m.
On 05/05/2025 14:47, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Sun, 4 May 2025, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I think
"Microprogramming" as a technique has been around as long as we
have had computers. Couldn't the setting up ENIAC to behave like a
stored program computer in 1948 be described as "Microprogramming"?
Various earlier systems used microprogram-like
techniques, but I don't
know how many were earlier than PB in their use of the word.
The Zuse Z1 from 1936(!) was microcoded, too. It
implemented for example
floating-point arithmetic and conversion instructions
(binary<-->decimal).
Christian
Dave