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Numerous machines had user-definable microcode. For example, the PDP-11/60 had a "Writeable Control Store" (WCS) option, as did the early VAX-11s. I once knew someone who actually did create his own VAX instruction (I want to say it was an FFT, but that might be wrong).



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