From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Waldek Hebisch  schrieb:   
   > In comp.arch Anton Ertl  wrote:   
   >> antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:   
   >>>In comp.arch Anton Ertl  wrote:   
   >>>> Did the VAX 11/780 have writable microcode?   
   >>>   
   >>>Yes, 12 kB (2K words 96-bit each).   
   >>   
   >> So that's 12KB of fast RAM that could have been reused for making the   
   >> cache larger in a RISC-VAX, maybe increasing its size from 2KB to   
   >> 12KB.   
   >   
   > VAX-780 architecture handbook says cache was 8 KB and used 8-byte   
   > lines.  So extra 12KB of fast RAM could double cache size.   
   > That would be nice improvement, but not as dramatic as increase   
   > from 2 KB to 12 KB.   
      
   It could have been used as icache, for example.   
      
      
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