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From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What should be in hardware but isn't
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Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 12:43:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 12:43:40 1987
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cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes about the need for all sorts
of fancy instructions done in hardware.  Might I suggest the good-ole
780 and certain Burroughs machines which let you load your own
microcode.  The details of this operation are left as an exercise for
the reader.... (especially because a: I don't have a VAX to play with,
and b: I don't know the details of this operation myself :-) ).



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