> On Jul 20, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Paul Koning wrote:
>> 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.
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
