The death of Bit-slice

Abstract

In 1982, Nick Tredennick [Tred82] described his view of the universe of microprogramming. He divided it into four "cultures:"Commercial Machine Culture The developers of general purpose computer families.Bit-Slice Culture The developers of specialized systems built with standard bit-slice components.Microprogrammable Machine Culture The developers of systems that can emulate several computer architectures.Single-Chip Culture The developers of microprocessors who use microprogramming as an implementation technique.