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

[Alan D. Mazurka]

okay, i've got one..

after we (apollo computer) were purchased by Hewlett Packard, the existing 
apollo base feared losing a lot of apollo's innovations.

i heard a marketing person discussing advantages of "Apollo-ness", and 
"HP-ness"

...and not even flinching..

  - adm -

At 10:34 AM 3/17/2005, you wrote:
>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."


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Alan D. 
Mazurka 
adm.design at verizon.net
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