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From: mccartne@cause.Berkeley.EDU (James T. McCartney)
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Subject: Re: VAX Assembler trivia: "Caution: New Opcodes"
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Date: 25 Sep 89 21:40:17 GMT
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The REMQxI and INSQxI instructions were added to the VAX architecture back in October 1978 and thus
they are new (relatively speeking). The only VAXes being built at that time were 780s and they had a 
loadable microcontrol store. So unless you have a really old VAX which has never been ECOed and it's
running software that time forgot, the INSQxI and REMQxI instructions are there. No current day VAX