SEX - Software EXchange.
A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of
millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been
terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among
hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to
exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good
Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus. See also
pubic directory. 2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used for
Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the PDP-11 and many
other architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early Elf and
SuperElf personal computers had a `SEt X register' SEX instruction,
but this seems to have had little folkloric impact. The Data
General instruction set also had `SEX'.
DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the
`SEX' mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing
wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this
happened, either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was
one of the original designers of the 8086, noted that there was
originally a `SEX' instruction on that processor, too. He says that
Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and
thus the instruction was renamed `CBW' and `CWD' (depending on what
was being extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller
used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight `SEX' but has
logical-or and logical-and instructions `ORL' and `ANL'.
The Motorola 6809, used in the Radio Shack Color Computer and in
U.K.'s `Dragon 32' personal computer, actually had an official `SEX'
instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did
not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after
all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level)
have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple.
😆
Originally posted by PeterGriffin
SEX - Software EXchange.A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of
millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been
terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among
hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to
exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good
Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus. See also
pubic directory. 2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used for
Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the PDP-11 and many
other architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early Elf and
SuperElf personal computers had a `SEt X register' SEX instruction,
but this seems to have had little folkloric impact. The Data
General instruction set also had `SEX'.DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the
`SEX' mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing
wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this
happened, either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was
one of the original designers of the 8086, noted that there was
originally a `SEX' instruction on that processor, too. He says that
Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and
thus the instruction was renamed `CBW' and `CWD' (depending on what
was being extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller
used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight `SEX' but has
logical-or and logical-and instructions `ORL' and `ANL'.The Motorola 6809, used in the Radio Shack Color Computer and in
U.K.'s `Dragon 32' personal computer, actually had an official `SEX'
instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did
not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after
all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level)
have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple.😆
😑 that sounds like something the character his username is inspired by would say......*backs away*
I don't want ya and I don't need ya
don't bother to resist or I'll beat ya
It's not your fault that you're always wrong
the weak ones are there to justify the strong
the beautiful people, the beautiful people
it's all relative to the size of your steeple
you can't see the forest for the trees
and you can't smell your own shit on your knees
there's a time to discriminate,
hate every mother****er
that's in your way