> Is it really "microcoded" when all you're doing is writing a RISC-V emulator that runs on what looks to be a fairly standard 8 bit CPU? Don't know, but the a

> Is it really "microcoded" when all you're doing is writing a RISC-V emulator that runs on what looks to be a fairly standard 8 bit CPU? Don't know, but the amount of "microcode" or emulation code required is itself a reasonable measure of an ISA's complexity. Doing an x86 that way would surely take tons more code.