Why was microprogramming such a popular means of implementing control units in the 1980s?
What will be an ideal response?
In the 1980s memory was horrendously expensive by comparison with the cost of memory today. Every byte was
precious. Consequently, complex instructions were created to do a lot of work per instruction. These instructions
were interpreted in microcode in the CPU. Today, memory is cheap and simple regular instructions are the order
of the day (i.e., RISC). However, some processors like the IA32 have legacy code (complex instructions), that is still
interpreted by means of microcode.
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