The Growth of Interest in Microprogramming: A Literature Survey

@article{Wilkes1969TheGO,
  title={The Growth of Interest in Microprogramming: A Literature Survey},
  author={Maurice Vincent Wilkes},
  journal={ACM Comput. Surv.},
  year={1969},
  volume={1},
  pages={139-145}
}
  • M. Wilkes
  • Published 1 September 1969
  • Computer Science
  • ACM Comput. Surv.
The literature is surveyed beginning with the first paper published in 1951. At that time microprogrammmg was proposed primarily as a means for designing the control umt of an otherwme conventmnal digital computer, although the possible use of a read/write control memory was noted. The survey reveals the way in which interest has successively developed in the following aspects of the subject: stored logic, the apphcatmn of m]croprogrammmg to the design of a range of computers, emulatmn, m… 
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