[rescue] systems with user modifiable microcode.

Paul Sladen sun-rescue at paul.sladen.org
Thu Oct 3 08:54:26 CDT 2002


On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 08:27 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > The early IBM PC/370 cards (Mainframe in your desktop) used
> > 68000-family CPUs with modified instructon sets
> It was done at fab time.

Do you know what mods they did, I'm intrigued, were they specialist
(for example) iteration instructions, or system level functions?

	-Paul
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Nottingham, GB



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