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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)
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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.