[simpits-tech] Has anyone else ever noticed...

[Simon Bennett]

Heh. Actually, the PDP-11's instruction set had a SEX instruction, for Sign 
EXtend...

According to the jargon file:
"DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the SEX mnemonic 
out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced 
a change. That wasn't the last time this happened, either. The author of The 
Intel 8086 Primer, who was one of the original designers of the 8086, noted 
that there was originally a SEX instruction on that processor, too. He says 
that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus 
the instruction was renamed CBW and CWD (depending on what was being 
extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC 
keyboards) is also missing straight SEX but has logical-or and logical-and 
instructions ORL and ANL."

>From: Roy Coates <roy at flightlab.liv.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: Simulator Cockpit tech list <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
>To: Simulator Cockpit tech list <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
>Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Has anyone else ever noticed...
>Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:36:40 +0000 (GMT)
>
>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Simon Bennett wrote:
>
> > I'm sure we've all seen worse when it comes to military acronyms, 
>though.
> >
> > For example, the navy used to shorten 'Commander-in-Chief, US Fleet' to
> > CINCUS. This was changed during the early days of WWII, for obvious 
>reasons.
>
>
>LOL!  I'd not heard that one - I like it :-)
>
>
>A friend of mine has for years ensured that systems he is writing have
>dubious acronyms. He's gone through every dodgy word known relating to sex
>or toilet activities. Not once has he been brought to task about it.
>
>Years ago, I had to write a graphics language for some kit we had here and
>got a tongue-in-cheek telling off from the boss who found the following in
>my carefully, and innocently, written manual.
>
>ARSE - Defines an Arc - Where R=Radius, S=Start Angle, E=End Angle.
>
>
>For me, the classic of all time was when the polytechnic's up in the UK's
>north east Newcastle/Tyneside area combined to form The "Combined
>Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne".  The 4-letter acronym was priceless!
>
>I think its more fun when accidental.
>
>--
>
>Roy Coates.
>Dept of Engineering.
>Liverpool University.
>E-Mail: r.coates at liv.ac.uk
>Tel: 0151 794 4862
>
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