POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : BPM : Re: Microcode Server Time
4 Sep 2024 09:19:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Microcode  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 10 Jun 2010 13:25:04
Message: <4c111ff0$1@news.povray.org>
>> And you actually know how it was wired up internally, do you?
> 
> http://www.pagetable.com/?p=39

...Christ that's complicated! o_O

> so now it's an argument more over "what is microcode" than it is 
> over whether a 6502 has microcode.

Yeah, well, that figures. ;-)

> I'd say anything that steps thru a ROM with a counter during one 
> instruction is probably microcode, myself.

Well, a "ROM" can be just a grid of wires, some connected and some not.

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