Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues

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From: Peter Kaiser
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:05

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In article <1992Nov22.043852.764@megadata.mega.oz.au>,
andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au (Andrew McRae) writes:

> If it looks like microcode, smells like microcode ... Why call it PALcode?

Because it isn't microcode: it's the same instruction set, operating under
slightly different conditions.  A car driving down a road in a snowstorm
still isn't a snowplow.

> (`A rose is a rose by any other name'?)

Back to your Shakespeare to check this quotation, Andrew: "That which we
call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." :-)

___Pete

kaiser@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
+33 92.95.62.97, FAX +33 92.95.52.00

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From: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser)
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Subject: Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues
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