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Article #625531Re: our friend the VAX, was PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:21
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:21
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:17:31 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: > The VAX do have more light weight subroutine calls than the generic > CALLS/CALLG. I don't know why people never seem to know this. There is > the JSB/RSB pair, which is just the simple push the return address and > jump and nothing more opcodes (and the return is obviously just a pop > the return address). One could argue that BSB/RSB are even slightly lighter! :) -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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