On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 4:46 pm, David E. Fox wrote: >> It reminds me of assembly courses I took in the 80s where the > instructor was quick to point out that a MOV instruction didn't go > out and physically move the bits from point A to point B, but did a > copy.
The PDP-8 had no MOV instruction, but did have: DCA - Dump And Clear Accumulator TCA - Two's Complement Add Storing the contents of the accumulator cleared it, and to load it you added something to it. -- Richard Urwin
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