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Re:Nibbler 4 Bit CPU by creshal on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @08:34AM (#10379938)
Two 16 KiB ROMs, actually.

(Meanwhile, current Intel processors have 2 MiB microcode files.)

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Re:Nibbler 4 Bit CPU by k8tte on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:14AM (#10380170)
to be fair, that's 2 MiB code that is the base of the other os you never heard of, the IME, AMT and their backdoor capabilities [1]

1: https://fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology

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Re:Nibbler 4 Bit CPU by creshal on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @11:25AM (#10381074)
No, that's just the CPU µcode. IME/AMT are part of the BIOS/EFI images, which is a whopping 16 MiB for my current motherboard.
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Re:Nibbler 4 Bit CPU by makomk on Thursday October 15, 2015 @05:08AM (#10392109)
The current CPU microcode download appears to be 0.81 MB compressed for every single Intel CPU since the Pentium 4.
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Re:Nibbler 4 Bit CPU by jokr004 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @10:02AM (#10380501)
You know, lights out management is a wonderful thing and there's never been any kind of evidence that these features do anything but offer functionality that Intel's customers asked for.
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