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From: kinne@asgb.UUCP (Robert W Kinne)
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Subject: Re: attocode?
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 11:02:12 EDT
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> > we can expect them to microcode the microcode, leading to fascinating
> > generations of nano-, pico-, femto-, and attocode.
> > 
> > John Levine, ima!johnl
> 
> How did we manage to skip millicode?  Anybody know?

The prefix micro- has two senses; one scientific and technical, which
has the precise meaning of 10 ^-6, the second a general sense of very
small scale.  Microcode, like microeconomics, microscope, and indeed,
microprocessor, is the second sense.  So microcoded microcode could
be described by almost any generic superlative; for example, we could
call it awesomecode.