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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CISC Microprocessors
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Date: 28 Jul 89 00:48:34 GMT
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>Well, it depends on what you want to call a CISC microprocessor.  The 680x0,
>80x86, NS32xxx, WE32x00, NEC V series, and Transputers are all microcoded.

Not quite. The V33 is a non-microcoded implementation, to provide additional
performance and (perhaps) to avoid the microcode copyright issues.

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com  415/494-2677