Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!mordor!jdb From: jdb@mordor.s1.gov (John Bruner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: foo? Message-ID: <708@mordor.s1.gov> Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 16:08:37 EST Article-I.D.: mordor.708 Posted: Wed Jan 7 16:08:37 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Jan-87 23:24:39 EST References: <246@polyslo.UUCP> <5426@brl-smoke.ARPA> <159@andromeda.UUCP> <15176@onfcanim.UUCP> Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL Lines: 12 > 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. The Motorola 6809 sign-extend instruction is SEX. The PDP-11 may be SEXless, but it does have an SOB (Subtract One and Branch). [Most 11's do. Old 11's without EIS don't.] -- John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) MILNET: jdb@mordor.s1.gov (415) 422-0758 UUCP: ...!ucbvax!decwrl!mordor!jdb ...!seismo!mordor!jdb