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From: Michael J. Young
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1988 18:58
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1988 18:58
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In article <16946@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
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>This may be a bit of ancient history...but does anyone remeber the
>Pascal Microengine? Who made it and what processor did it use?
>I used one back in the Dark Ages ( c. 1980 ).
The Pascal Microengine, if I remember correctly, was actually the old
LSI-11/2 chipset (made by Western Digital for DEC) with new "microcode"
to handle the P-code instruction set. I never heard much about it after
DEC started making their own LSI chips.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!necis!mrst!sdti!mjy From: mjy@sdti.UUCP (Michael J. Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: pascal microengine... Message-ID: <203@sdti.UUCP> Date: 22 Jan 88 18:58:42 GMT References: <16946@gatech.edu> Reply-To: mjy@sdti.UUCP (0000-Michael J. Young) Organization: Software Development Technologies, Sudbury MA Lines: 15