In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/25/2005
at 10:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Ah! The JFFO instruction which appeared on the decsystem KA-10 in
>1968 (according to an unscientific Google search). I suppose it's OK
>for IBM to use it now, since any patent has presumably expired.
I'm sure that IBM could trot out prior art; CDC had such an
instruction before DEC. I suspect that IBM did as well, on the 7030,
but don't have a manual.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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