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*'''don't move''' - microprogram is a more formal term for it, just as in the case of typical software 'program' is a more formal term than 'code'. The redirect from microcode is sufficient. --[[User:Brouhaha|Brouhaha]] 05:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
**I completely agree with Brouhaha. Microprogram is the formal term; Microcode is slang for that. This from 30 years experience in the industry, esp. with the ''big iron'' in IBM's stable. [[User:Dav4is|-R.]] 18:51, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
*'''Strong Support'''. Microcode is what the technoligy is. It has been around since the 1950s or 1960s if not earlier. I could be biased here since I did program with/write microcode. Never heard the term microprgram when I was involved and I have never heard that before this discssion as anything other then a tiny program segment. [[User:Vegaswikian|Vegaswikian]] 19:29, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
**You've led a sheltered life, then. Search on Amazon for books with "microcoding" in the title; then search for "microprogramming". There are eight times as many of the latter. The ACM and IEEE held conferences and workshops on "microprogramming"; they held none on "microcoding". When Maurice Wilkes invented the technique in 1951, he called it "microprogramming", not "microcoding". "Microcoding" is effectively a slang term for "microprogramming", just as "coding" is for "programming". The existence of a commonly-used term that is less formal justifies a redirect, but does not justify renaming the article. The article name is correct as it stands. --[[User:Brouhaha|Brouhaha]] 00:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
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