Creating squeak pluggable primitives - a few ideas, someconfusion, looking for like minded folks

Sun Nov 11 18:31:13 UTC 2001

> The Motorola 6809 actually had BRN: BRanch Never! A NOP that used two bytes and used three CPU cycles. It also had SEX (Sign EXtend a 8 bit value to 16 bit).
Nice...

ARM has a SWI (software interupt) and every instruction has a condition
code. One of them is NE - not equal. It took a while but eventually I
wrote a program that compiled to have a 
  SWINE someOSthingorother
line.
I was so happy.
tim