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Re:An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and ... by pfalcon on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:43PM (#16032539)
You must be kidding. Normal CPU architectures - the RISC ones - don't have funny things like "microcode" (well, true RISCs don't have it for sure). Majority of CPU architectures nowadays are RISCs. Some legacy ones, like x86, are CISC-translated-to-RISC, as this presentation shows. The native RISC code in them is called "microcode".
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Re:An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and ... by bogomipz on Saturday December 30, 2017 @11:18AM (#16035844)
Oh yes I was just kidding.

Can we assume you must be kidding too when you use the phrase "Normal CPU architectures"?

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