Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 from ihnp4 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site chinet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!chinet!rlk From: rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: This Sentence is False Message-ID: <171@chinet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 12:44:14 EDT Article-I.D.: chinet.171 Posted: Tue Sep 3 12:44:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 02:49:13 EDT References: <1118@brl-tgr.ARPA> <139200010@uiucdcsb> Reply-To: rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 24 In article <139200010@uiucdcsb> robison@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA writes: > >> ... But no machine I know of has a `branch if true' instruxion... > > The 808x/Z80 families of microprocessors set the 'zero' flag in 'compare' instructions, and have 'jump if zero', 'jump if non-zero', as well as the corresponding conditional subroutine calls and and conditional returns. They may be too small for you to consider them 'machines', but an awful lot of work gets done on them. -- Richard Klappal UUCP: ..!ihnp4!chinet!uklpl!rlk | "Money is truthful. If a man MCIMail: rklappal | speaks of his honor, make him Compuserve: 74106,1021 | pay cash." USPS: 1 S 299 Danby Street | Villa Park IL 60181 | Lazarus Long TEL: (312) 620-4988 | (aka R. Heinlein) -------------------------------------------------------------------------