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A hardware definition of microprogramming

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This paper tries to give a simple, effective definition of 'microprogramming' by reducing this notion to the concept of a 'microcontrolled' machine. The class of microcontrolled machines can rigorously be defined using the terminology of switching algebra.

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    cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
    ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 5, Issue 1
    April 1974
    85 pages
    ISSN:1050-916X
    DOI:10.1145/1217149
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    New York, NY, United States

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