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		Pica_soO on June 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Mi... Not really.. the API is still there, behaving like a backwards compatible processor, but deep down- there is no reserved silicon for this- just pipelines, getting microcode.

waynecochran on June 25, 2017 [–]

Naive architecture question: where is the microcode stored? Is it in some on-chip ROM?

Pica_soO on June 25, 2017 | [–]

You got me, hat tip. Look Up Tables :D

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