On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 8:13 PM Mike Katz <[email protected]> wrote:

> And of course the best instruction in the chip was Sign Extend B into
> A.  That instruction was SEX in the Motorola assembler.
>
> CLR    B
> SEX
>
> was the same as
>
> CLR    A
> CLR    B
>
> But then you could have sex in your code🙂
>
> Hey, when I was in my 20's and programing the 6809 that was fun.

In the UK there was a home computer based on the same Motorola
schematic called the Dragon. Similar to the CoCo, but not identical.
Anyway it was well-known at the time 'You can have SEX with a Dragon'

-tony

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