In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/17/2005
at 03:47 AM, Phil King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Iirc the IBM 370 introduced the MVCIN (move character inverse)
>instruction to facilitate support for BiDi.
No, it was introduced earlier: MVCIN was an RPQ on the 360/65. With
ECPS:VSE on the 4341, MVCIN became a standard instruction. I don't
recall when it became standard for other than VSE.
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