On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 03:17, tblanchard at mac.com wrote:
> But - Isn't the Crusoe processor supposed to be designed to be 
> reconfigurable at some interesting level?
> 
Or, for that matter, the Alpha. IIRC, it has a piece set aside 
that's programmable with microcode; it was used (my experience with
the Alpha goes back to the earliest days) to add a useful subset
of VAX instructions in order to facilitate the port at boot time.

I think this bit of the Alpha is well-documented.

(A pity that HP is going to kill it)
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