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Forgotten Assembly Language Commands
« on: January 31, 2010, 01:14 AM »
Found a great and really funny website here with 85 forgotten commands lol

http://www.jokes2go.com/lists/list30.html

*edit below*

Screw it, dont bother going there to view 100's of ad's. Ive copied and pasted below!


Forgotten Assembly Language Commands





1. BBBF      Branch on Bit Bucket Full


2. BBT      Branch on binary tree


3. BBW      Branch Both Ways


4. BEW      Branch Either Way


5. BH        Branch and Hang


6. BMR      Branch Multiple Registers


7. BOB      Branch On Bug


8. BOD      Beat on drum


9. BOI      Byte operator immediately


10. BPDI      Be polite, don't interrupt



11. BPO      Branch on Power Off


12. BST      Backspace and Stretch Tape


13. CDS      Condense and Destroy System


14. CEMU      Close eyes and monkey with user space


15. CLBR      Clobber Register


16. CLBRI    Clobber Register Immediately


17. CM        Circulate Memory


18. CMFRM    Come From  (essential for truly structured programming)


19. CPAR      Crumple paper and rip


20. CPPR      Crumple Printer Paper and Rip


21. CRB      Crash and burn


22. CRN      Convert to Roman Numerals


23. CU        Convert to unary


24. CZZC      Convert zone to ZIP code


25. DC        Divide and Conquer


26. DMPK      Destroy Memory Protect Key


27. DNPG      Do not pass go


28. DO        Divide and Overflow


29. DWIMNWIS  Do what I mean, not what I say


30. EIOC      Execute invalid opcode


31. EMPC      Emulate Pocket Calculator


32. EPI      Execute Programmer Immediately


33. EROS      Erase Read Only Storage


34. EXCE      Execute Customer Engineer


35. EXOP      Execute operator


36. EXPP      Execute political prisoner


37. FSRA      Forms skip and run away


38. GFD      Go forth and divide


39. GFM      Go forth and multiply


40. HCF      Halt and Catch Fire


41. IBP      Insert Bug and Proceed


42. IIB      Ignore inquiry and branch


43. INSQSW    Insert into queue somewhere (for FINO queues [First in never out])


44. LCC      Load and clear core


45. MBF      Multiply and be fruitful


46. MLR      Move and lose record


47. PBC      Print and Break Chain


48. PD        Play dead


49. PDSK      Punch Disk


50. PI        Punch Invalid


51. POPI      Punch Operator Immediately


52. PS*      Punch obscenity


53. PSD      Pause and smoke dope


54. PVLC      Punch Variable Length Card


55. RASC      Read And Shred Card


56. RD        Reverse directions


57. RDS      Read sideways


58. RIRG      Read inter-record gap


59. RPM      Read Programmer's Mind


60. RSD      On read error self destruct


61. RSSC      Reduce Speed, Step Carefully (for improved accuracy)


62. RSTOM    Read from store-only memory


63. RTAB      Rewind tape and break


64. RWCR      Rewind card reader


65. RWDSK    Rewind Disk


66. RWOC      Read Writing On Card


67. SCRBL    Scribble to disk - faster than a write


68. SHAB      Shift a bit


69. SHLBM    Shift a little bit more


70. SLC      Search for Lost Chord


71. SMR      Skip on meaningless result


72. SOT      Sit on a tack


73. SPSW      Scramble Program Status Word


74. SQPC      Sit quietly and  play with your crayons


75. SQSW      Scramble program status word


76. SRSD      Seek Record and Scar Disk


77. SRZ      Subtract and reset to zero


78. SSJ      Select stacker and jam


79. STROM    Store in Read Only Memory


80. TDB      Transfer and Drop Bits


81. UER      Update and erase record


82. WBT      Water Binary Tree


83. WEMG      Write eighteen-minute gap


84. WPM      Write programmer's mind


85. XSP      Execute systems programmer
« Last Edit: January 31, 2010, 01:17 AM by Stephen66515 »

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Re: Forgotten Assembly Language Commands
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2010, 01:23 AM »
;D

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Re: Forgotten Assembly Language Commands
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2010, 01:27 AM »
Mousey...Sit quietly and play with your crayons, nobody asked you for your opinion ;) haha



jk rofl

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Re: Forgotten Assembly Language Commands
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2010, 02:50 AM »
I don't get the joke.
I bet when Cheetahs race and one of them cheats, the other one goes "Man, you're such a Cheetah!" and they laugh & eat a zebra or whatever.

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Re: Forgotten Assembly Language Commands
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2010, 06:13 PM »
That would be instructions, not commands. Heck, if you want to be really nit-picky, it'd be "instruction mnemonics".
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Re: Forgotten Assembly Language Commands
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2010, 02:33 AM »
dont wanna be nit-picky, i mearly copied and pasted it lol

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