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  1. Path: ar.ar.com.au!not-for-mail
  2. From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm/Cydonia)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
  5. Date: 24 Mar 1996 11:00:23 +1000
  6. Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
  7. Message-ID: <4j26r7$49b@ar.ar.com.au>
  8. References: <DoF1EB.D16@cix.compulink.co.uk> <1273.6653T68T2094@ling.unipi.it> <19960322.7B1D328.15CF@asd07-25.dial.xs4all.nl>
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  11.  
  12. Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv@xs4all.nl) wrote:
  13.  
  14. : In article <1273.6653T68T2094@ling.unipi.it> rosselli@ling.unipi.it (Roberto Rosselli Del Turco) writes:
  15. : > On the 17-Mar-96 15:25:23 jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk (Jolyon Ralph) wrote:
  16.  
  17. : > >As for the PPC, how anyone can take seriously a processor with an EIEIO
  18. : > >instruction I'll never know :-)                                     |
  19. : >                                                                      |
  20. : > What's that?  --------------------------------------------------------
  21.  
  22. : Enforce In-Order Execution of Input and Output.
  23.  
  24. : Isn't that obvious?  "Old Mac Donald's had a farm, EIEIO".  RTFM!  8-P
  25.  
  26. I got all excited about the PPC's 'lha' instruction - I thought it did
  27. lha compression in hardware! Imagine my disappointment when I discovered
  28. it meant "load halfword algebraic". :-)
  29.  
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