According to this it starts out in HSA
Millicode in an IBM zSeries processor
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3751/is_200405/ai_n9388162/
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Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In
<476996cbbe9af14285e09e63c370072a148d030...@phxccrprd01.adprod.bmc.com>,
on 08/17/2010
at 09:02 AM, "Blaicher, Chris" <chris_blaic...@bmc.com> said:
>I don't know if today's milli-code is faster than micro-coded or just a
>different name for the same thing.
The term microcoded is normally used when the simulated architecture is
different from the underlying architecture, e.g., 108-bit wide control
words simulating the 370 instruction set on 1 3168.
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