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From: John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Stealing a Great Idea from the 6600
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:59:12 -0600
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On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 22:03:21 +0000, mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
wrote:
>BGB wrote:

>>    Sign-extend signed values, zero-extend unsigned values.

>Another mistake I mad in Mc 88100.

As that is a mistake the IBM 360 made, I make it too. But I make it
the way the 360 did: there are no signed and unsigned values, in the
sense of a Burroughs machine, there are just Load, Load Unsigned - and
Insert - instructions.

Index and base register values are assumed to be unsigned.

John Savard