On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Ross Harvey wrote:

> Then, the "successor", the VAX came along. No AND. ("@#$&!@!, it was not
> a mistake.") And this on a cpu that had an instruction sort of like printf(3),
> called "EDITPC", and another one called POLY. (Don't ask.)

Well, presumably the idea was that you could implement an AND through
the evaluation of polynomials. :-)

cjs
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