Just a note to avoid having incorrect information in the archives without a correction. I wrote:
> [%] It occurs to me, the VAX's BBSSI and BBCCI _are_ CAS, just > restricted to a one-bit-wide operand (and with the data-to-swap-in > specified by choice of instruction rather than an operand). This is false. CAS, as the term is normally used, turns out to be not the compare-and-swap the acronym expands to but compare-and-conditionally-swap. However, BBSSI and BBCCI always perform the write. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
