Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Back To CS Basics. Fuck AI Date: 17 Oct 2026 04:15:17 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <18dee4b6cab427fa$865$2574533$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <87ik32455m.fsf@solcaium.us> <87ecdq41bl.fsf@solcaium.us> <11askn8$33cuk$2@dont-email.me> <20261016131327.00002892@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net baDEtEDeVPTwcuqZSq/GrABZyY6bxHMu+4ehrA5Rzm8tTOAIY4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+VR0OdBJdHQ25mTE9YXAWAltXmY= sha256:Z5pwbrVQmSP42f0k6ZHcckxqiGH36RaYB71GzIuFiCA= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93968 On Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:13:27 -0700, John Ames wrote: > The only term that actually blurs the lines here is microcode; this can > indeed be seen as another layer for programmatically directing the > operations of hardware, even if it's only used to implement the > machine's official instruction set. But then not all CPUs are actually > microcoded in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PALM_processor IBM had a strange idea of what a microprocessor was. The System/23 was the successor to the 5100 series and used an Intel 8085 and other Intel MPUs. I found it odd that the IBM PC was a 5150. It had nothing to do with the 5100 - 5120 machines.