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Microcode != Using micro-ops. Microcode has been around for half a century at least, much longer than micro-ops.

• grishka 6y ago
  Uh. I thought that micro-ops were literally microcode instructions/operations?
  • mhh__ 6y ago
    In a modern processor they are however microcode as a general term is a catch-all term which basically means non-trivial configuration logic stored in somewhere not meant to be touched by people other than the vendor. I think IBM have millicode.
    • orge 6y ago
      nanocode?