/seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsew
here] 1. Software EXc
hange. A tec
hnique invented by t
he blue-green algae
hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up t
heir evolution, w
hic
h had been terribly slow up until t
hen. Today, SEX parties are popular among
hackers and ot
hers (of course, t
hese are no longer limited to exc
hanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Good Thing">Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=virus">virus. See also
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=pubic directory">pubic directory. 2. T
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=mnemonic">mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a mac
hine instruction found in t
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=PDP-11">PDP-11 and many ot
her arc
hitectures. T
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=RCA 1802">RCA 1802 c
hip used in t
he early
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Elf">Elf and SuperElf
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=personal computers">personal computers had a "SEt X register" SEX instruction, but t
his seems to
have
had little folkloric impact. DEC' s engineers nearly got a
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=PDP-11">PDP-11 href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=assembler">assembler t
hat used t
he "SEX" mnemonic out t
he door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn' t asleep and forced a c
hange. T
hat wasn' t t
he last time t
his
happened, eit
her. T
he aut
hor of "T
he Intel 8086 Primer", w
ho was one of t
he original designers of t
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Intel 8086">Intel 8086, noted t
hat t
here was originally a "SEX" instruction on t
hat processor, too.
he says t
hat Intel management got cold feet and decreed t
hat it be c
hanged, and t
hus t
he instruction was renamed "CBW" and "CWD" (depending on w
hat was being extended). T
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Intel 8048">Intel 8048 (t
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=microcontroller">microcontroller used in
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=IBM PC">IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straig
ht "SEX" but
has logical-or and logical-and instructions "ORL" and "ANL". T
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Motorola 6809">Motorola 6809, used in t
he UK' s "
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Dragon 32">Dragon 32" {personal computer}, actually
had an official "SEX" instruction t
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=6502">6502 in t
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Apple II">Apple II wit
h w
hic
h it competed did not. Britis
h hackers t
houg
ht t
his made perfect myt
hic sense after all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some t
heoretical level)
have sex wit
h a dragon, but you can' t
have sex wit
h an apple. [
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (1998-03-03)
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