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From: Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 1: jmp 1b
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:14:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191020071432.GB20503@indra.papnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpNfN-hA5UsFM__hXDUyFLpaGGFG4wYooQbkVPYryaZKw@mail.gmail.com>

On 19/10/19, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 6:37 PM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > where did the relative labels come from? I still show them to people
> > when we're doing assembly and still use them all the time. Most people
> > have not seen them and find them wonderfully convenient. I know they
> > were in as by the time I came along in 1976; when did they first show
> > up?
> >
> 
> The pdp7 as sources have them...

I seem to remember they were suggest by Knuth, but I don't know when and
where, sorry.
I very much agree that they are great.

aap

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-20  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-20  0:36 ron minnich
2019-10-20  0:44 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-20  7:14   ` Angelo Papenhoff [this message]
2019-10-20 13:38 Norman Wilson
2019-10-21 14:05 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-21 14:09 ` John P. Linderman

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