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- From: murphy@rock.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.220430.2374@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov19.204209.6619@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <DOCONNOR.92Nov20095251@potato.sedona.intel.com> <1992Nov20.183610.12796@crl.dec.com> <1992Nov23.180432.26829@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:04:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.180432.26829@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
- |> Newsgroups: comp.arch
- |> Path: ryn.mro4.dec.com!wrksys.enet.dec.com!bhandarkar
- |> From: bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar)
- |> Subject: Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues
- |> Message-ID: <1992Nov23.180432.26829@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- |> Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System)
- |> Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- |> References: <1992Nov19.204209.6619@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <DOCONNOR.92Nov20095251@potato.sedona.intel.com> <1992Nov20.183610.12796@crl.dec.com>
- |> Date: 23 NOV 92 13:04:41
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- |> >In article <DOCONNOR.92Nov20095251@potato.sedona.intel.com> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
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- |> >>Sounds like a microcoded instruction to me. Except, of course, that
- |> >>there's no guarantee of what PALcodes are available on a particular
- |> >>system, and that the microcode may be external to the chip.
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- PALcode works very similar to the BIOS routines in the IBM PC. Macrocode that
- handles traps and special operations etc...
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- Murph
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