[Edu-sig] Teaching Python instead of Java?

[Dirk-Ulrich Heise]

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "Alan Gauld" <agauld@crosswinds.net>
An: "Morris, Steve" <smorris@cereva.com>; <agauld@crosswinds.net>; "Tom
Malcolmson" <tom-list@home.com>; <edu-sig@python.org>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. März 2001 10:32
Betreff: RE: [Edu-sig] Teaching Python instead of Java?
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> > say: both of these machines implemented a complex
> > abstraction in microcode.
>
> True but the microcode is part of the CPU hardware,
> you can't change it in any way.(OK pedantically a
> few experimental chips allow changes to microcode)

Surprise, it's already part of your favorite mainstream CPU.
Pentia allow it. BIOS Roms today contain microcode
blocks that are loaded into the CPU depending on its
exact mask number, to fix processor bugs. So with a little
hacking, you might roll your own symbolics processor
du jour.

Dirk Heise
dheise at debitel dot net