foo?
Root Boy Jim
rbj at icst-cmr.arpa
Tue Jan 20 12:23:59 AEST 1987
>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.
That was 10 years later. Besides, what fun would a `SXTual Revolution' be?
(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell <rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>
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