1 May
2020
1 May
'20
1:29 p.m.
On 2020-05-01 03:59 PM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
I wonder if the developers had competitions on who could write the shortest working loader program. No fair modifying hardware to create the new instructions you needed. That was a thing, back when it was still possible to get tools between
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: parts of your CPU.
Both the Data General Eclipse and DEC VAX 11/780 supported microcode, where you could write your own instructions. I occasionally had to track down microcode bugs on the Eclipse.