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- From: ogilvie@hpcvcdi.cv.hp.com (Scott Ogilvie)
- Subject: Re: iAPX432 ??
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:08:59 GMT
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- > : Tim, wasn't the 432 also ADA Microcoded? -Steve
-
- No the 432 was not ADA Microcoded. The microcode supported the complex instructions
- including instructions like sendMessage, and surrogateSendMessage. The original
- language work was for a language called SIL (Systems Implementation Language). Intel
- abandoned SIL and adopted ADA because ADA was a STANDARD that already had all of
- the most important features of SIL.
-
- Scott Ogilvie, My own opinion but I was around there someplace.
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