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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RCA 1802 (was: PC history)
Summary: History: the RCA 1802
Keywords: history, pc, RCA, 1802
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Date: 7 Aug 88 02:33:20 GMT
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In message <3884@sequent.UUCP>, jjb@sequent.UUCP (Jeff Bob Berkowitz) says:
>For many years, the 1802 was the ONLY choice for a wide variety of specialized
>applications requiring low power, high noise immunity, and so on.  It was
>also extremely simple to apply.  In general, a "technology to fit the times" -
>also, the only processor with a SEX instruction ("SEt X", yes it's true :-).
>

Actually, the 6809 has a SEX instruction, too (Sign extend .X
register). OF course, the 6809 was also 6 or 7 years later... 
I don't know if the original 6800 had SEX, alas, maybe someone a bit
more, err, ancient, than I, can fill us in on that.

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