2009/8/5 McKown, John <[email protected]>:

> 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.

The 370/165 and 168 had a Load Microprogram instruction.

Tony H.

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