Computer one liners ... nyuk, nyuk's

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> >     Todays assembler command :  EXOP   Execute Operator
> 
> In 1969, on the IBM 360/75, we BAL guys joked about the channel
> command SCKEO - Short Circuit Keyboard and Electrocute Operator,
> also SCH -- Seek and Crash Head. (refferring to disk drives)

A Real-Life PowerPC assembler mnemonic is EIEIO, pronounced
"ee-eye-ee-eye-oh" -- as in old McDonald's farm.  It stands for
"Execute In-Order Execution of I/O" and provides for ordering the
effects of load and store instructions.  Necessary when fiddling
bits on a piece of hardware.

Richard "PowerPC programmer" Masoner
Champaign Illinois USA