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In March 1982, Hewlett-Packard announced the [[HP 3000] Series 64, an [ECL]] implementation with a Writable Control Store.[1]
September 1985 brought the announcement of the Series 37, a low-cost gate array implementation which eschewed the usual separate control processor for booting and used an initial bootstrap from the 32-bit wide ROMs to load the 64-bit wide boot microcode into the WCS.[2]

It's unlikely that the MPE based HP 3000 Series 64 microcode development system (MDS) software has survived, but an HP internal 543 page assembly listing exists.[3] The Series 37 Design Capture and Documentation (DCDF) tool for capturing designs for simulation in FTL (IBM 370) on an Amdahl V6 is also unlikely to have survived. Unlike the Series 64 listing, only a single line example is shown in the HP Journal for the Series 37 microcode.

WCS Files
Filename Date Version MD5 Source tape
Example Example Example Example Example
SYSWCS64 - 2833A 5c7d16e391abe087211b3a9fbc9dc4e0 v-delta-5_fos_2902
SYSWCS64 - 2805A 5e15376760a122f15099c617ac853440 v-delta-2_fos_2814

v-delta-3_fos

SYSWCS64 - PR2312A 69d809609e4ff5964a72c998058945d0 32033-11003_MPE_IV
SYSWCS64 - 2833A 953471cffece4e3fb2cb67c7007f84e9 v-delta-8_fos_2944
SYSWCS64 - 2833A 9ac00f6cf121f0db1d2f1301b38b0140 32033-10082_platform_1p_fos_34

er_3035

SYSWCS64 - PR0903A 9bbe23656aa61fb23351b8b8a9951742 32099-11009_MPE_IV_2244
SYSWCS64 - cxa638a 9bf49dca2afc4cea98151cb27d22c6b0 ub-delta-1_fos_2642
SYSWCS64 - PR2318A ab9b59cd724659f6763daf37abbc80e4 32098-11003_2338
SYSWCS64 - pr2419a b55a5d00b7f5b3066826a0386903bfa8 2033-11010_vp-d-1_fos
SYSWCS64 - wcx3033a d7864c56fc5af05820d62a9730d8feb1 32033-10430_MPE_V_Rel_2P_3237
SYSWCS64 - 2833A df0079446c945ecf91d04097dcc49639 v-delta-9_fos_32033-10024_3010
SYSWCS37 - - d140c56d5b26dcc2dac918e12f752ac6 32033-10430_MPE_V_Rel_2P_3237

v-delta-8_fos_2944 v-delta-9_fos_32033-10024_3010 32033-10082_platform_1p_fos_34er_3035

SYSWCS37 - - bb8f5773e6efa320ae22a5419383e70e ub-delta-1_fos_2642
SYSWCS37 - - ea7233c3fe085916b53532fba53c4c88 v-delta-2_fos_2814

v-delta-3_fos v-delta-5_fos_2902

WCSLE1 - - 1497c8771666a19d9a3353fd9d92549b v-delta-2_fos_2814

v-delta-3_fos v-delta-5_fos_2902

WCSLE1 - - 50e37d18f35728c767995fbe8759e70c ub-delta-1_fos_2642
WCSLE1 - - 543bb46a70e61807ba31c02b1b9f6ffc 32033-10430_MPE_V_Rel_2P_3237

v-delta-8_fos_2944 v-delta-9_fos_32033-10024_3010 32033-10082_platform_1p_fos_34er_3035

WCSLE2 - - 3e74d482ca1f5f34dc75f1933c0e715f v-delta-2_fos

2814 v-delta-3_fos v-delta-5_fos_2902

WCSLE2 - - 78fb826dd55624a91a0d7609103994b4 32033-10430_MPE_V_Rel_2P_3237

v-delta-8_fos_2944 v-delta-9_fos_32033-10024_3010 32033-10082_platform_1p_fos_34

WCSLE2 - - 7d809ae17e1e3776be982edfb0105ee1 ub-delta-1_fos_2642

References

  1. ^ "HP 3000 Series 64". HP Journal. March 1982.
  2. ^ "HP 3000 Series 37". HP Journal. September 1985.
  3. ^ HP 3000 Series 64/68/70 Computer Systems Microcode Manual (PDF) (2nd ed.). Hewlett-Packard. October 1986. 30140-90045.