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I am shocked: they write microcode in high level language!

Lambda the Ultimate points at an article titled The GNU 64-bit PL8 compiler. I was shocked to discover that as early as 20 years ago, IBM has been writing microcode for their computers using high level languages.

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Comment by mulix
2004-05-19 03:41:30

heh, I just posted an entry about this paper as well :-)
(http://livejournal.com/users/mulix)

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