Teaching and research experiences with an emulation laboratory

Abstract

User-microprogrammable computers have been generally available since the early 1970s, although in the past few years they have become quite popular. The primary reason for the increased popularity is the decrease in price made possible by technological advances in high-speed memories. Also, the computer manufacturing industry is looking towards microprogramming for increasing throughput of large operating systems, which cannot be replaced because of the large investment for them in software.