Re: VAX-11's compatibility mode

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 1985 00:31

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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...
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

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Subject: Re: VAX-11's compatibility mode
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Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 19:31:54 EST
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