Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <bcuhos$1et6$1@merope.saaf.se>,
Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:
> 
>Microcode can of course be replaced by hardware, however the RISC CPU
>still does an amount of interpretation of the machine code before
>deciding what to actually do.  If the RISC machine code was some kind
>of microcode moved out to regular memory, then it would become very
>bloated, where most bits in the machine code didn't matter but still
>had to be there to occupy that specific bit position.

Welcome to Itanium EPIC/ELIW (explicitly parallel instruction
word/extremely lon instruction word)
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Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
            June 20, 2003 is GIF Freedom Day (US)