IBM 5100

Ken Seefried ken at seefried.com
Tue Aug 17 21:05:14 CDT 2004


From: Christian Corti <cc at corti-net.de>
>
>You can't change the microcode of the PALM processor. That would be like
>changing the microcode of e.g. a MC68000. 
>

Actually....you can do that. 

The IBM {PC,XT,AT}/370 card(s) (ISA-bus card that put a "baby" IBM S/370 on 
your desktop) had a CPU that was a re-microcoded 68000 (emulating some 
subset of the IBM S/370 mainframe instruction set).  IBM licensed the 
architecture from Motorola.  Probably got familiar with it building the IBM 
9000 Instruments System. 

That, of course, doesn't mean you could do it on a PALM. 

Ken 





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