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Article #2145Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym
From: le... Joel B Levin
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 1990 17:03
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 1990 17:03
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In article <ENTROPY.90...@pawl22.pawl.rpi.edu> ent...@pawl22.pawl.rpi.edu (Angel of Dope) writes:
|In article <23...@tellab5.tellabs.com> to...@tellab5.tellabs.com (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
|> My WAG is that close to 98% of all op-codes available in
|> assemblers that generate machine code are 3 characters.
|Oh my. IBM 370 assembly language has mnemonics with lengths
|between 1 (N, A, et al.) and 5 (STCTL et al.) and has had
|such for a very long time indeed. You microcomputer people
|are all the same.
Oh, right. 370 indeed (not even 360!).
Go back to 1401 Autocoder. Or PDP-1 assembler. I expect that very
few assemblers had strictly three character op-codes, but some of the
really old ones may have.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!think!mintaka!mit-eddie!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: le...@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym Message-ID: <54248@bbn.COM> Date: 29 Mar 90 17:03:34 GMT References: <1990Mar26.115358.912@eng.umd.edu> <2309@tellab5.tellabs.com> <ENTROPY.90Mar29111836@pawl22.pawl.rpi.edu> Sender: ne...@bbn.COM Reply-To: le...@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 18 Posted: Thu Mar 29 18:03:34 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit