In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/02/2008
at 08:58 AM, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>May well be. From my admitted limited understanding, microcode was more
>like RISC code.
Perhaps on some processors. For the big boys, the only connection with
RISC was that each control word executed in the same amount of time.
>I think that VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word?) was also in the
>microcode
Depends on the processor. Google for "horizontal microcode" and "vertical
microcode".
>Millicode is easier.
That depends on what you're trying to do. There are tradeoffs.
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