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From: black@ee.UCLA.EDU (Rex Black)
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Subject: Re: foo?
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Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 14:02:40 EST
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>    >Then there's the apocryphal story about the PDP-11's sign extend
>    >instruction.  The mnemonic op code was, of course, SEX.  That one got
>    >changed to SXT before the manuals were printed.
>    Motorola had more guts - the sign extend instruction on the 6809 was 
>    called SEX. 
> That was 10 years later. Besides, what fun would a `SXTual Revolution' be?
> 	(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>

How about the Z80 instruction "POPI"?  Someone at Zilog must have been
eating their spinach!

Rex Black
	
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