[TUHS] The origins of portability in C

[ron minnich via TUHS]

if an instruction named SOB had not existed, it would have been necessary
to create one.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM Dave Horsfall via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Oct 2025, Rob Pike via TUHS wrote:
>
> > It was done for the port to the Interdata. To answer question 3, I often
> > heard (and early on, believed) that things like *p++ were invented for
> > the addressing modes on the PDP-11, but was told by Ken and Dennis that
> > they were not original.
>
> I believe the same thing was said about the SOB instruction too.
>
> -- Dave
>