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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: WDM mnemonic
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.144503.28233@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 14:45:03 GMT
References: <5424@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2062@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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In article <2062@ultb.isc.rit.edu> lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Les Barstow: Phoenix) writes:
>the WDM instruction is reserved for future use - presumably for two-byte
>instructions which would be needed for the 65832 in order to access the
>longwords and longword addresses which that chip might be capable of...
>
>Stands for something like Western Design (Macro/Mnemonic)...
>

Actually it stands for William D. Mensch, the chip designer's name.


Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu