Re: Proposed Assembler Commands

On Sun, 01 May 2005 05:39:42 +0000, Ralph Barone wrote:

> In article <4273FC89.300B8AA7@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Mike Monett wrote:
>>
>> > To All,
>> >
>> > Microprocessors have become so simple that it seems anyone can program
>> > them nowadays. But think of what it was like when the first processors
>> > came out and you had to program around noisy circuits and unreliable
>> > memory.
>>
>> Rumour has it that the 6800 had an undocumented instruction.
>>
>> HCF - Halt and Catch Fire
>>
>> Graham
>>
>> ok - you got that one already
>
> Doesn't the PowerPC have an EIEIO op-code (Enforce Inorder Execution of
> I/O)?

Yes. Some time back I was following a bickup truck down I89 with the
license plate EIEIO. Thinking it was a PPC type with strange sense of
humor, I pulled up along side. Nope, McDonald's Tree Farms. ;-)

Wasn't it the 6800 (or perhaps 6502??) that had the LSEX (Load with Sign
EXtended)?

--
Keith

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