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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Chameleon chip
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Date: 27 Sep 88 20:40:35 GMT
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>> What is a chamelon chip?
> In the Rumor posting by Murphy Sewall had an article outlining ...
> software thinks you are running XXXXX chip.  This allows you to run several
> different processors on one chip.

As I recall, the chip had to be 'burned in' to a particular instruction set 
you wanted to run.  This would presumably limit its ability to run
'everything'

Some believe that this would be a way to avoid microcode lawsuits, since
resposibility for the chip's instruction set would be diffused.
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