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Subject: Re: foo?
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Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 20:55:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 10 20:55:59 1987
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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!