In
<84bccd71182f0046bcd2fb054fe5237917b2ee2...@hqmailsvr02.voltage.com>,
on 12/27/2014
at 09:17 AM, Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> said:
>This is fun. I'm not sure modern machines are both microcoded AND
>millicoded-I thought millicode was just another form of microcode. Am
>I wrong?
Yes; millicode is the same as what Amdahl called macrocode, and is one
level up from microcode, using (mostly) normal S/3x0 instructions.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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