Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: foo? Message-ID: <1625@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 20:55:59 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.1625 Posted: Sat Jan 10 20:55:59 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 07:04:21 EST References: <246@polyslo.UUCP> <5426@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Organization: U of Chicago - Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 9 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. An old Harris I used to use (a /6 I think) had a square-root instruction called SEX. Matt Crawford Let's send the Russians defective lifestyle accessories!