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From: mark@rtech.UUCP (Mark Wittenberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: Call for 68K architectural change evaluations
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 12:16:03 EDT
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> What I wonder is: where would you use it for?
> You don't want to facilitate code like
> 	INC.L	#0
> 	BEQ	...
> I hope :~{ ??
> 
> -- 
> 	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
> 	The shell is my oyster.

Did you ever read UNIX V6 startup assembler?  It included
	inc	#-1
	bne	...
(well, maybe it was #0, or beq, but you get the idea).  It startled
me when I first saw it.
-- 

Mark Wittenberg
Relational Technology
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