On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:54:23 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > >Yes, but I vaguely remember some system that we studied in college which had >"writable control storage" where an authorized application could load in an >alternate ISA, well actually it would extend the current ISA because you >couldn't change the built-in instructions. > Ah, the memories: LSI-11, P-machine, Wicat, Terak, ... Most of which I never used, but they were buzzwords in their time.
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