[rescue] systems with user modifiable microcode.

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>>    The 11/03 does as well.
>
> Hmmm... I have one of those!  :-)

   Do you have the WCS option?  I know they exist, but I've never seen 
one.

> Well, OK, sort of, though the Alpha docs are careful to always say that
> PALcode is just a set of subroutines written using normal instructions
> which are (usually) resident in main memory and they also consistently
> say that the PALcode provides a mechanism to implement consistent
> low-level system support functions without having to use microcode.
> Even the DEC guys compare PALcode more to the BIOS in a PC than 
> anything
> else.

   I was under the impression that PALcode instructions weren't regular 
Alpha-instruction-set instructions.  If they are, then ignore my last 
statement. ;)

        -Dave

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