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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Why no INC or DEC
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Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 17:48:32 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 19 17:48:32 1985
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Why doesn't the 68000 have increment or decrement instructions?  I know
that the 68000 was designed (at least to some degree) with the spirit of
RISC, but INC and DEC are actually quite simple, and useful, instructions.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn