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- From: gerhard@netmbx.netmbx.de (Gerhard Hoffmann)
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues
- Organization: netmbx, Berlin, Germany
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:42:26 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov20.064529.20293@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1992Nov22.043852.764@megadata.mega.oz.au> <By4pEI.8r5.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <By4pEI.8r5.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
- >andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au (Andrew McRae) writes:
- >>If it looks like microcode, smells like microcode ... Why call it PALcode?
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- >Because it doesn't even vaguely resemble microcode.
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- >- PALcode is fetched from the I-cache, not from ROM.
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- This doesn't mean anything. Early low-end /360 machines had their
- microcode in main store, and still it was microcode.
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- >....
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