Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues

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From: murphy
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:04

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In article <1992Nov23.180432.26829@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
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|> From: bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar)
|> Subject: Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues
|> Message-ID: <1992Nov23.180432.26829@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
|> Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System)
|> Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
|> References: <1992Nov19.204209.6619@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <DOCONNOR.92Nov20095251@potato.sedona.intel.com> <1992Nov20.183610.12796@crl.dec.com>
|> Date: 23 NOV 92 13:04:41    
|> 
|> 
|> >In article <DOCONNOR.92Nov20095251@potato.sedona.intel.com> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
|> >>
|> >>Sounds like a microcoded instruction to me. Except, of course, that
|> >>there's no guarantee of what PALcodes are available on a particular
|> >>system, and that the microcode may be external to the chip.

PALcode works very similar to the BIOS routines in the IBM PC.  Macrocode that
handles traps and special operations etc...

Murph

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Subject: Re: DEC Alpha architecture issues
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