Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon

John Ames <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A place where nothing fits quite right
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:42:20 GMT
Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> I figured that if they were going to do that, they might as well go
> whole hog and have constructs like LD PC,<addr> for a jump, and LD
> A,@<portnum> for input (LD @<portnum>,A for output, of course).

MOV [operand], PC is actually a valid if non-conventional form of jump
on the PDP-11; the primary difference is that it sets the flags based
on the value of the target address. And, of course, it has memory-
mapped I/O, so MOV Rn, [port]/MOV [port], Rn is indeed how it's done ;)
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