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Development tools for user microprogramming

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Software tools used to develop microcode for the BBN Microprogrammable Building Block have been implemented using standard software engineering and language development utilities. The major microcode development tools include a microassembler, multi-task operating system, and debugging packages. Important aspects of these and other development tools are the functional, user interface and structural characteristics.

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            cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
            ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 12, Issue 4
            Dec. 1981
            187 pages
            ISSN:1050-916X
            DOI:10.1145/1014192
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            • cover image ACM Conferences
              MICRO 14: Proceedings of the 14th annual workshop on Microprogramming
              December 1981
              214 pages

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