In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/23/2006
   at 11:18 AM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Why on earth would you think that such a simple instruction would
>need  an assist?

Possibly the existence of hardware that included such an assist.
BTDTGTTS.
 
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