Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <2770@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 11:03:40 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2770 Posted: Fri Mar 16 11:03:40 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:18:29 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 21 #R:sdcrdcf:-86300:fortune:5400084:000:621 fortune!rpw3 Mar 16 04:31:00 1984 That's not funny... The PDP-10 HAS an "ETI"! (Execute this instruction) HERE: XCT HERE ; LOOP FOREVER WITHOUT DOING AN EXECUTE CYCLE of course, you can always do a HERE: JRST @HERE ; ANOTHER WAY TO LOOP WITHOUT EXECUTING Both versions burn up lots of CPU time on a KL-10 without EVER increasing the "instructions executed" counter used by some utilities for billing :-) (Funny only if you're not the one wondering where the response time went...) Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065