In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/20/2006
at 10:59 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>In the very unlikely event that some instructions documented in the
>PoOp are found not to perform as advertised, IBM would be compelled
>to fix the broken microcode so that they do.
No. Current implementations have 3 levels, not just two, and IBM can
replace broken microcode with millicode.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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