Altair - A different perspective

From: Hans Franke <franke_at_sbs.de>
Date: Thu Aug 27 06:40:49 1998

>>I'd love to see a manual for the chipset and microcode information.

> I think the burning question would be: How does one debug somehting
> like this?

Like any other new processor. In fact, the microcode instructions
are nothing else than the 'real' instrructions of the CPU. And the
microcode of a CPU is nothing more than a basic, build in interpreter
for the 'official' instruction set. So the development is (almost)
the same as for any Interpreter you want to write fo a naked system.

Gruss
H.

--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Thu Aug 27 1998 - 06:40:49 BST

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