Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcrware!jejones
From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RCA 1802 (was: PC history)
Summary: sexy MPUs--the 1802 is not alone!
Keywords: history, pc, RCA, 1802
Message-ID: <719@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 15:34:17 GMT
References: <5458@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <1876@looking.UUCP> <753@applix.UUCP> <3884@sequent.UUCP>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <3884@sequent.UUCP>, jjb@sequent.UUCP (Jeff Bob Berkowitz) writes:
> For many years, the 1802 was the ONLY choice for a wide variety of specialized
> applications ....
> also, the only processor with a SEX instruction ("SEt X", yes it's true :-).

I respectfully differ.  The 6809 has a SEX instruction ("Sign EXtend", i.e.
propagate the MSB of the B register into the A register giving a 16-bit
quantity in the double accumulator D.) :-)

	Cheers,
	James Jones