Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!tove!mark From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: WORKS Digest V5 #25 Message-ID: <224@tove.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 21:22:32 EDT Article-I.D.: tove.224 Posted: Sat Jun 1 21:22:32 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Jun-85 20:25:52 EDT References: <2161@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 19 In article <2161@topaz.ARPA> PLJennings.Scribe@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA writes: >From: "Patrick L. Jennings" > >I read about the 6085 in Info-IBMPC. It does sound really neat, the >user-programmable microcode is the neatest part. I'm impressed they >were able to get so much IBM-PC compatibility just by fudging the >microcode. Unfortunately, I think the user-programmable microcode part of that article was in error. Xerox is extremely close to the vest about their microcode and microcoding tools. I have been trying, as Xerox University Grantee (and so supposedly especially in favor with them) to get at the microcode on Dandelions, and have met considerable resistance. -mark -- Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@maryland Phone: +1-301-454-7817 CSNet: mark@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!mark USPS: Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742