This Sentence is False

[Richard L. Klappal]

In article <139200010 at uiucdcsb> robison at uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA writes:
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>> ... But no machine I know of has a `branch if true' instruxion...
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The 808x/Z80 families of microprocessors set the 'zero' flag in 'compare'
instructions, and have 'jump if zero', 'jump if non-zero', as well as the
corresponding conditional subroutine calls and and conditional returns.

They may be too small for you to consider them 'machines', but an awful
lot of work gets done on them.


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