It would be very interesting, since the point of RISC is to get rid of the expensive control logic that microcode requires. This would cause the Power architecture to be completely re-engineered.
I have to wonder what the point of doing that would be. I think the reason that IBM wants to move the mainframe to the Power is so they can get rid of things like microcode. Microcode is high maintenance. -----Original Message----- From: Phil Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM's Power5+ to hit 3GHz On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:34:07AM -0700, Fargusson.Alan wrote: | Power chips are not microcoded, so this would not be possible. Maybe the new ones will be. It could be interesting if they were. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
