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Old August 11th 03, 04:41 PM
Ron Natalie
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"John Ousterhout" wrote in message
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:28:12 -0700, Ed Wischmeyer
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XP! - excecute programmer immediate


NEW ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE COMMANDS

You're missing the infamous HCF...Halt and Catch Fire instruction.

A friend of mine went to a new startup called "CatchFire Systems." He
swears it's only coincidentally related to HCF.

Of course, the other fun one was the new UNIX errno value:

ELECTROLUX ... Your code needs cleaning up.