Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
Date	2024-10-06 23:29 +0000
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On 6 Oct 2024 06:26:32 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> ... as I recall you could twiddle octal locations in the opcodes.

Sounds PDP-11-ish. The instruction layout was such that, if an instruction 
was expressed as an integer, register numbers and addressing modes fitted 
neatly into particular octal digits.

Not sure if that was true of the PDP-10. The later VAX went all hex, of 
course.

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Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-05 23:51 -0400
  Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-10-06 06:05 +0000
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-06 06:26 +0000
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-10-06 18:44 +0000
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-06 23:29 +0000
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2024-10-06 19:59 -0400
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2024-10-07 14:42 +0000
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-10-07 16:24 -0400
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-11 00:56 -0400
          Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-10-11 11:01 -0400
  Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-06 15:58 -0700
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-11 00:53 -0400

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