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A macro processor is software. Usually a part of a compiler or an assembler, used to program a computer.

A microprocessor is hardware, one type of computer implementation.

Very different things.

The macro processor was first created in the 1950s and was used on large vacuum tube mainframe computers (long before the first microprocessor).

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