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Re: VAX RPB (Restart Parameter Block)



On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Holm Tiffe wrote:
That's crazy, isn't it?
Never seen such an instruction on another architecture that just is testing
the least significant bit. Maybe that's useful for some shift operations,
but I think there are better commands for this.

The interlocked queue instructions use the least-significant bit of the
first longword of the queue header to manage the interlock.
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