SEX
/ Sek S/ [ Sun U Ser S' Group & el Sewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundred S of million S of year S ago to Speed up their evolution, which had been terribly Slow up until then. Today, SEX partie S are popular among hacker S and other S (of cour Se, the Se are no longer limited to exchange S of genetic Software). In general, SEX partie S are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a viruS. See al So pubic directory. 2. The mnemonic often u Sed for Sign EXtend, a machine in Struction found in the PDP-11 and many other architecture S. The RCA 1802 chip u Sed in the early Elf and SuperElf perSonal computerS had a " SEt X regi Ster" SEX in Struction, but thi S Seem S to have had little folkloric impact. DEC' S engineer S nearly got a PDP-11 aSSembler that u Sed the " SEX" mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wa Sn' t a Sleep and forced a change. That wa Sn' t the la St time thi S happened, either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who wa S one of the original de Signer S of the Intel 8086, noted that there wa S originally a " SEX" in Struction on that proce SSor, too. He Say S that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thu S the in Struction wa S renamed "CBW" and "CWD" (depending on what wa S being extended). The Intel 8048 (the microcontroller u Sed in IBM PC keyboard S) i S al So mi SSing Straight " SEX" but ha S logical-or and logical-and in Struction S "ORL" and "ANL". The Motorola 6809, u Sed in the UK' S " Dragon 32" {per Sonal computer}, actually had an official " SEX" in Struction the 6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did not. Briti Sh hacker S thought thi S made perfect mythic Sen Se after all, it wa S commonly ob Served, you could (on Some theoretical level) have Sex with a dragon, but you can' t have Sex with an apple. [ Jargon File] (1998-03-03) Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition Suitable contentS: [ 1802 ] [ 2 ] [ 6502 ] [ 6809 ] [ 8048 ] [ 8086 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ ae ] [ af ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ANL ] [ app ] [ Apple II ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ architecture ] [ arg ] [ aS ] [ aSSembler ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ B ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bo ] [ boa ] [ board ] [ bS ] [ by ] [ C ] [ CA ] [ ca ] [ ch ] [ chip ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ com ] [ computer ] [ con ] [ control ] [ controller ] [ cr ] [ CW ] [ D ] [ de ] [ DEC ] [ dec ] [ deSign ] [ ding ] [ directory ] [ do ] [ DP ] [ dragon ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ engine ] [ er ] [ era ] [ eS ] [ et ] [ extend ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ G ] [ ga ] [ gate ] [ ge ] [ gen ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gn ] [ Go ] [ Good Thing ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hang ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hit ] [ hn ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ hu ] [ IBM ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ Intel 8048 ] [ io ] [ iq ] [ ir ] [ iS ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ K ] [ ke ] [ key ] [ keyboard ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lk ] [ logical ] [ lS ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ machine ] [ man ] [ management ] [ micro ] [ microcontroller ] [ mil ] [ mill ] [ mm ] [ mn ] [ mnemonic ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ Motorola ] [ Motorola 6809 ] [ mp ] [ mS ] [ my ] [ N ] [ na ] [ named ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ net ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nl ] [ no ] [ np ] [ nS ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ OR ] [ pa ] [ PC ] [ PD ] [ PDP ] [ PDP-11 ] [ pe ] [ perf ] [ perSonal computer ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pop ] [ pr ] [ proceSS ] [ proceSSor ] [ pubic directory ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ RCA 1802 ] [ re ] [ regiSter ] [ RL ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ Sa ] [ Say ] [ SE ] [ Se ] [ Serve ] [ Sh ] [ Si ] [ Sig ] [ Sig ] [ Sl ] [ Sleep ] [ Sn ] [ So ] [ Software ] [ St ] [ Struct ] [ Sun ] [ T ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ troll ] [ tt ] [ tw ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ up ] [ uS ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ viruS ] [ WD ] [ X ] [ Xt ] [ ye ] [ yt ]
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