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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject: Re: Zilog's mnemonics; a boon to programmers
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Date: 13 Nov 90 16:43:30 GMT
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In article <1768@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
>Ahem, excuse me, but Zilog's mnemonics were readable and orthogonal in a way
>that Intel's never were

Quite true.  The problem was that the orthogonality of the mnemonics
led one to write instructions that didn't in fact exist.

-- Richard

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