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The organizers of the original Euromicro symposium may have seen what most could not: the strong relationship between the seemingly unrelated topics of microprogramming and microprocessing. A revolution during the 1980s in both areas has resulted in low-cost, high-performance computers. Advances in horizontal microcode compaction technology have enabled the production of machines that operate at supercomputer speeds even when constructed of minicomputer hardware components. The microprocessor revolution, almost 20 years old, is now appearing at the near-supercomputer level, with differences that include: 1. the appearance of RISC (reduced instruction set computing) microprocessors, 2. good compiler technology, and 3. the market viability of very fast floating point circuits. The use of RISC principles in very fast microprocessors, coupled with the power of horizontal microcode compaction techniques, has produced some of the highest powered scientific processors. These 2 trends will continue to flourish and join together.