14 May
2012
14 May
'12
11:55
Dirk Gently said the following on 05/14/2012 04:44 AM:
One of my projects writing a cycle-by-cycle simulator for some CPU circuitry passed out by the prof. Then we had the great fun(*) of writing microcode to implement the PDP-11 instruction set.
(*) for varying values of "fun"
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