From: "Charles Mills" <charl...@mcn.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2018 1:51 AM
My (long former) product wrote a successful S/390 commercial product in C in the ~1995 timeframe.
No problems with S/390 performance.
At that time I don't think the x86 architecture had any "string" instructions either -- strcpy()
was implemented for PC-DOS as a software loop.
The 8088 had a repeat instruction, and when prefixed to another instruction,
carried out a loop until a given condition was met.
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