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Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11?

From Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11?
Date 2017-12-08 12:10 +0000
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On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:47:05 +0000, Roger Blake wrote:

> On 2017-12-07, Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> wrote:
>> I would love one. I could do Macro-10 too.
> 
> Never got into assembler on those, but was involved in an APL project.
> (Gotta love a language that looks like bursts of line noise!)

Completely orthogonal set of conditional instructions.

JUMP is a no-op; you have to use JUMPA (Always)

Althought it's faster to use JRST 0,  (jump and restore no flags)!

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What have we learned from the PDP-11? RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2017-12-06 19:26 -0500
  Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-12-07 09:12 +0000
  Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-07 09:42 +0000
    Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-12-07 16:57 +0000
      Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-07 17:15 +0000
        Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-12-07 17:46 +0000
          Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2017-12-07 21:18 +0000
            Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-12-07 21:45 +0000
              Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2017-12-07 22:18 +0000
                Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-12-08 04:47 +0000
                Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2017-12-08 12:10 +0000
  Re: What have we learned from the PDP-11? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-12-10 19:40 +0100

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