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Most Of The VAX Instructions Are In Microcode, But Halt And No-op Are In Hardware For Efficiency.
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Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency.
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HALT: No-Op
1) If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction.
2) Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will the most harmful error be discovered....
STOP: No Op
Hackers do it in the microcode.
RCM: Randomly Corrupt Microcode
He who dies with the most hardware WINS!
little-endian: adj. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first').
The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian....
bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
bum: 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....