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Root Boy Jim rbj at icst-cmr.arpa
Tue Jan 20 12:23:59 AEST 1987


   >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 at icst-cmr.arpa>



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