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From: abali@phao.eng.ohio-state.edu (Bulent Abali)
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Subject: Re: Japanese 32-bit micro can be a 68020 or 80386
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Date: 19 May 88 13:12:00 GMT
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In article <803@leah.Albany.Edu> rmb384@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert M. Bownes III) writes:
>
>	Talking about r[micro/nano]coding:
>
>		Didn't IBM remicrocode a couple of 68K dice to look like
>a restricted version of the 370? I remember reading about this quite a while 
>back. Anyone remember any of the details?
>
>	Bob
 
  IBM's XT/370 and AT/370 personal computers have 2 remicrocoded
  68000's which implement a subset of the 370 instruction set.

  Bulent