Re: our friend the VAX, was PDP 11/40 system manual

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From: Johnny Billquist
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:20

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On 2018-08-14 15:21, Bob Eager wrote:
> 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! :)

Yes. You win. :-)
I'll blame it on a parity error in my brain.

   Johnny

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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
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email: b...@softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

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From: Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se>
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Subject: Re: our friend the VAX, was PDP 11/40 system manual
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