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- From: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.110535.27437@vbohub.vbo.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 11:05:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.064529.20293@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1992Nov22.043852.764@megadata.mega.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Nov22.043852.764@megadata.mega.oz.au>,
- andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au (Andrew McRae) writes:
-
- > If it looks like microcode, smells like microcode ... Why call it PALcode?
-
- Because it isn't microcode: it's the same instruction set, operating under
- slightly different conditions. A car driving down a road in a snowstorm
- still isn't a snowplow.
-
- > (`A rose is a rose by any other name'?)
-
- Back to your Shakespeare to check this quotation, Andrew: "That which we
- call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." :-)
-
- ___Pete
-
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