John Bentley Stringer
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John Bentley Stringer was a British
computer pioneer. At Cambridge Maths Lab he worked with Maurice Wilkes creating the concept of microcode
. He then became a civil servant firstly at the National Physical Laboratory then at the Government Communications Headquarters.
United Kingdom
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computer pioneer. At Cambridge Maths Lab he worked with Maurice Wilkes creating the concept of microcode
Microcode
Microcode is a layer of hardware-level instructions and/or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in many computers and other processors; it resides in special high-speed memory and translates machine instructions into sequences of detailed...
. He then became a civil servant firstly at the National Physical Laboratory then at the Government Communications Headquarters.