A classic Trivia Question

[Doug Ingraham]

In days of old when knights were bold and computers barely invented...


In the PDP-8 PAL assembler what is the purpose of the following character
sequence accomplish?

*.+1%2^2

If you know the answer good for you!  You get a gold star.  Please don't
blurt out the answer.  Let people think about it a bit.  I'll post the
answer in a couple of days.  I came up with this sequence this morning for
use in an emulator I am working on.


Doug Ingraham