Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: More (urgently!) needed instructions Message-ID: <2000012@hpfcla.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 01:17:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfcla.2000012 Posted: Thu Mar 29 01:17:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 10:02:33 EST References: <799@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:ihuxi:-79900:hpfcla:2000012:000:703 Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs Mar 6 22:17:00 1984 I'm really looking forward to one machine instruction in particular... RAN Read All Notes This microcoded instruction saves several hours a day by implanting directly in the invoker's mind just those things they would remember if they read all their new notes for that day. For systems that run News instead, the same mnemonic still applies. How's that for portability? If execution of RAN would require more than 150 states, it simply pushes a random number instead. However, this seldom happens, since the memorable quantity each day can usually be processed in only 42 states. (This article, for instance, can be processed in only 12 states, leaving plenty of time for the rest of net.jokes.)