The state of the microprogramming a

The state of the microprogramming art was reviewed by Datamation in its
February 1964 issue. No microprogrammed system was in wide use at that time, and
one of the papers [HILL64] summarized the then-popular view that the future of
microprogramming “is somewhat cloudy. None of the major manufacturers has evidenced
interest in the technique, although presumably all have examined it.”