4 Dec
2024
4 Dec
'24
8:24 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 8:13 PM Mike Katz <bitwiz(a)12bitsbest.com> wrote:
And of course the best instruction in the chip was
Sign Extend B into
A. That instruction was SEX in the Motorola assembler.
CLR B
SEX
was the same as
CLR A
CLR B
But then you could have sex in your code🙂
Hey, when I was in my 20's and programing the 6809 that was fun.
In the UK there was a home computer based on the same Motorola
schematic called the Dragon. Similar to the CoCo, but not identical.
Anyway it was well-known at the time 'You can have SEX with a Dragon'
-tony