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From: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: small instructions
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.230138.23549@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 91 23:01:38 GMT
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) ponders:

> (Why do male mammals have nipples?)

So you can find your cigarettes when you're drunk -- Martin Mull

It's notable that the fundamental encoding scheme for the genetic code
is extremely simple: four instructions (ATCG).  All else is accomplished
in software.

-- Jon