[Info-vax] Assembly languages, was: Re: OT: PDP-11 history in arstechnica

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-17, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <t0u0h9$839$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>Doesn't anyone else find it strange that the mnemonic across all
>>architectures is some variant of MOVE or MOV instead of COPY or CPY ?
>>
>>After all, you are not destroying the contents at the original
>>location/register when you copy it to the target location/register. :-)
>
> But you have no misgiving about 'cd'?
>

Shell command "cd" ? Interesting observation.

OTOH, shells have both move/mv and copy/cp commands, which do exactly
what they say.

Simon.

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