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Re: Trapdoors
In <[email protected]>, henry strickland writes:
|> # From [email protected] Sun Feb 21 14:14:43 1993
|> #
|> # Does anybody have a good idea what applications this is useful for?
|>
|> The old CDC CYBER machines had population count in its instruction
|> set. Perhaps some scientific-type programmers would know what they
|> used it for. The CYBER did not have a lot of instructions -- they
|> were pretty practical about what they put in. i.e. != VAX
More precedent: DG Eclipses have a COB (COunt Bits) instruction.
Interestingly enough, there seems to be no such instruction in the
VAX (This from R'ingTFM. I have pitifully little VAX experience.)
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