microprogram
noun
a set of microinstructions that defines the individual operations that a computer carries out in response to a machine-language instruction.
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On his office wall, Hoff still displays Intel's original advertisement: "Announcing a new era of integrated electronics ... a microprogrammable computer on a chip."
From Time Magazine Archive
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