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Article #210934Most complex instructions
From: ab... Heinz W. Wiggeshoff
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:15
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:15
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> In article <6aie7.52269$e%3.8...@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, > Chris Bigos wrote: > >>I wouldn't be surprised if the RPSB instruction (Repack Symbols) takes the >>prize for the most complex instruction ever implemented in the history of >>mainframe computing - certainly of the era. Any comments? (I guess this >>should be a new thread - if there isn't one on this topic already.) In the very early 70's, I read about a GE 6xx(?) list processing machine instruction. Someone commented that complier writers like those types of instructions. Any GE experts in a.f.c-land?
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