5 May
2025
5 May
'25
3:42 p.m.
On Sun, 4 May 2025, Steve Lewis wrote:
No, Steve is right. IBM used the term "microcode" for the normal CPU
instruction set (at least for the PALM processor).
Christian
Anyway, all I
mean is, in early 70s did "microcode" just mean
instruction-set, and that changed a few years later? Or did microcode
always mean some kind of "more primitive sequence" used to construct into
an instruction set?
The latter, as far as I know. And in "horizontal
microcode" you have a