[TUHS] 1: jmp 1b

Angelo Papenhoff aap at papnet.eu
Sun Oct 20 17:14:32 AEST 2019


On 19/10/19, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 6:37 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > where did the relative labels come from? I still show them to people
> > when we're doing assembly and still use them all the time. Most people
> > have not seen them and find them wonderfully convenient. I know they
> > were in as by the time I came along in 1976; when did they first show
> > up?
> >
> 
> The pdp7 as sources have them...

I seem to remember they were suggest by Knuth, but I don't know when and
where, sorry.
I very much agree that they are great.

aap


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