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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: bizarre instructions
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.031055.22914@kithrup.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 91 03:10:55 GMT
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In article <3386.27c55e18@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) writes:
>I havn't seen Seymour posting here, and I don't often meet him.
>Now that I am suitably impressed, would you share with us what
>he would tell us if we did ask him?

Pop count.  Count the set bits in a word.  CXi on the CDC Cyber series.

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