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- From: lucas@WATSON.IBM.COM ("Bruce Lucas")
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: pdp-10
- Message-ID: <9209031811.AA28649@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 18:11:11 GMT
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- > Certainly, the PDP10 had this capability. You could even place a
- > small loop in the registers and jump to it!
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- Indeed, if you wanted, you could place a NOP instruction in register 0
- with the indirect adress bit set specifying address 0, and voila, a
- very fast non-terminating NOP instruction.
-
- We now return you to your regularly scheduled debate about whether
- physicists are better programmers or programmers better physicists.
-
- Bruce Lucas
-