[rescue] systems with user modifiable microcode.

[Scott Newell]

>I'm sure I've read papers of people using the 11/60's microcode option
>for nifty application specific performance enhancements.  The 11/60 I
>first used Unix on had the option IIRC, but it was unused.

Sounds like it's another one of those features that would be nifty in
theory, but few bother with actually using it.


>It's all documented in the hardcopy "Alpha AXP Architecture Reference
>Manual":

Thanks for the links--interesting.  One of these days I _will_ have an
Alpha.  (Though I probably won't ever mod the PALcode either...)


newell