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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: flexible-instruction-set machines
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 12:09:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 12:09:08 1985
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The Microdata Corp. had several *user* microprogrammable minis
back in the 1969-1972 time frame.  As I remember, it was more of
a "do your own firmware" kind of setup - rather than loading new
instructions on the fly during program execution.  If anyone really
cares I could look a bit further at the Micro 800 and 1600 Reference
Manuals.
--henry schaffer