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In article <54...@bbn.COM> le...@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
|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.

Time out!  The opcode is a number, the letters are a mnemonic device so
the programmer can avoid remembering the number.  There is no necessary
correlation between the number of letters in the mnemonic and the number
it represents.