Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site xios.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg From: greg@xios.UUCP (Greg Franks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: foo? Message-ID: <386@xios.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 11:58:59 EST Article-I.D.: xios.386 Posted: Mon Jan 12 11:58:59 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 23:43:49 EST References: <246@polyslo.UUCP> <5426@brl-smoke.ARPA> <159@andromeda.UUCP> <89@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <584@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <15176@onMon, 12-Jan-87 11:58:59 EST Reply-To: greg@xios.UUCP (Greg Franks) Organization: Xios Systems Corp., Ottawa, Ont. Lines: 8 Summary: In article <15176@onfcanim.UUCP> dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) writes: >Then there's the apocryphal story about the PDP-11's sign extend >instruction. The mnemonic op code was, of course, SEX. That one got >changed to SXT before the manuals were printed. Motorola had more guts - the sign extend instruction on the 6809 was called SEX.