Re: iAPX432 ??

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From: Scott Ogilvie
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 01:08

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> : Tim, wasn't the 432 also ADA Microcoded? -Steve

No the 432 was not ADA Microcoded.  The microcode supported the complex instructions
including instructions like sendMessage, and surrogateSendMessage.  The original
language work was for a language called SIL (Systems Implementation Language).  Intel
abandoned SIL and adopted ADA because ADA was a STANDARD that already had all of
the most important features of SIL.

Scott Ogilvie,  My own opinion but I was around there someplace.

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