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In article <23...@tellab5.tellabs.com> to...@tellab5.tellabs.com (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
>In article <1990Mar26....@eng.umd.edu>, al...@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern) writes:
>> Don't forget the acronym TLA -- Three Letter Acronym.
>> DEC is the master (or a master) of TLA's, what with VAX, RSX, VMS, DCL,...
>> 
>>                              - -= Allon =- -
>> 
>
>Just take a look at the assembler mnemonics for the 6502 microprocessor;
>   If I'm not mistaken, every single one of these buggers is 3 characters
>   (and probably the 8008, 8080, etc. too).
>
>My WAG is that close to 98% of all op-codes available in assemblers that
>generate machine code are 3 characters.  The longer/shorter op-codes
>only seem to appear in more recent micro-processor development, starting
>with the Intel 8088/8086 ( I think, OK its not that recent, ;^) but not
>as old as the 6502 etal ).

Well, the Z-80 did not have it too much fixed at 3 characters, albeit many
were 3 characters and also matched the same op-codes of other processors
at the time.  (But two of the most used op-codes, LD (load), and PUSH
(just guess that one) )

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