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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (26031)	11/16/1997 8:58:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1583707

Elmer; It looks like the CPU has a bios of it's own, in EEPROM which can be changed, and when the CPU starts it loads a microcode set into fast memory for use? Correct me if I am wrong here, as I though the EE parts were too slow for a cpu to use as microcode, thus they have to take it from there and run it in a fast place where the microcode lives(at least the changeable part, there might be a hard wired portion as well, immutable, but known good) An analog of loading the BIOS to DRAM on boot for a motherboard. A machine within a machine. An elegant way for field programming. Thanks, the sites were good as well. Bill