Fifty (or Sixty) Years of Processor Development…for This?

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To simplify hardware development of the IBM System/360 processor hardware, the development team chose to use microprogramming for the hard-to-design control logic. Maurice Wilkes first conceived of microprogramming in 1951, and it was first used in 1958 for the EDSAC 2 computer. So, in a sense ...

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