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From: mjy@sdti.UUCP (Michael J. Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: pascal microengine...
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Date: 22 Jan 88 18:58:42 GMT
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In article <16946@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
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>
>This may be a bit of ancient history...but does anyone remeber the 
>Pascal Microengine?  Who made it and what processor did it use?
>I used one back in the Dark Ages ( c. 1980 ).

The Pascal Microengine, if I remember correctly, was actually the old
LSI-11/2 chipset (made by Western Digital for DEC) with new "microcode"
to handle the P-code instruction set.  I never heard much about it after
DEC started making their own LSI chips.
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