4 Apr
1999
4 Apr
'99
11:12 a.m.
But why would anyone want something that was
microcoded to run Pascal?
Once upon a time, PASCAL was popular, and many people thought it was the
wave of the future. Then C steamrolled over it.
Are there any other languages that have gotten
microcoded into a processor?
Many. There was APL microcode for several IBM mainframes. And just about
every language that ran on a Xerox D-machine (Alto, Dorado, Dolphin, Dandelion,
etc.) had its own special microcode.