Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.bugs.2bsd,net.bugs.4bsd,net.bugs.usg,net.bugs.uucp,net.bugs.v7,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: VAX-11's compatibility mode Message-ID: <5046@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 19:31:54 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5046 Posted: Sat Feb 9 19:31:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 19:31:54 EST References: <3615@ucla-cs.ARPA>, <414@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 Actually, a friend who got one of the first 780's outside DEC, and had DEC people working with them for a while getting it running, mentioned one other thing that compatibility mode doesn't support: the MARK instruction. This omission is (I believe) undocumented, but it's not surprising that nobody has noticed the absence of the most useless instruction ever added to the 11... -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry