Another great post from Ken - thanks again for all your work. Looking at the transistor / vacancy counts for microcode it struck me just how this reduces the c

Another great post from Ken - thanks again for all your work. Looking at the transistor / vacancy counts for microcode it struck me just how this reduces the count of those used for logic in the rest of the CPU - down to less than 12,000 I think. [1] The 8086's competitor the Z8000 had c17,500 and didn't use microcode so must have been significantly more complex to design - so giving Intel the advantage in getting to market first. [1] This ignores the transistors used for registers etc.