On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > Bah! He asked if there were lower levels than binary. Ergo: chip design! > (And microcode, the intermediate layer. Or one of the layers, depending > where you draw the line.) Should we stop before we reach the quantum foam of > spacetime?
Last I heard, Intel (and others?) had stopped using microcode, to get a performance boost. That means CPU's are not field-updatable in the event of a problem, but most people would just buy another computer anyway. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
