In <[email protected]>, on 02/19/2014
at 09:07 AM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> said:
>I think we have way to many instructions already <g>
Had IBM defined a real byte-oriented[1] architecture, some of those
instructions would not have been necessary.
[1] On the 7030, you addressed memory to the bit and varible field
length (VFL) instructions specified a byte length.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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