V-Compiler
Dave Patterson, Ross Goodell, Michael D. Poe, Simon C. Steely · 1981
Microprogramming has always been a difficult task. Related to hardware and software, it seems to have inherited difficulties from both. Microprogramming has the classic reliability and maintainability problems of software and from hardware it has inherited size and speed efficiency as practically the only measure of success. This legacy has made microprogramming a very difficult task. Falk summarized the state of microprogramming today: