Subject: Re: Small Kernel Help
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/06/2000 11:31:47
And you gotta love somebody at IBM for coming with the EIEIO
instruction... ("Old McDonald Had a Farm, ...."))
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 07:57:03PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > uhm, for small code size, port to a exxxxxxtreme CISC cpu, like VAX.
>
> I don't think even VAX has a "BSD4.4" instruction, though :) (It does have
> polynomial instructions..)
>
> 68HC12 has an EMACS instruction, but I'm afraid it doesn't do what unix
> folks might think it does.. (neither does the SEX instruction.)
>
> -jm
>