In <9302212232.AA12362@versant.com>, henry strickland writes: |> # From cypherpunks-request@toad.com Sun Feb 21 14:14:43 1993 |> # |> # Does anybody have a good idea what applications this is useful for? |> |> The old CDC CYBER machines had population count in its instruction |> set. Perhaps some scientific-type programmers would know what they |> used it for. The CYBER did not have a lot of instructions -- they |> were pretty practical about what they put in. i.e. != VAX More precedent: DG Eclipses have a COB (COunt Bits) instruction. Interestingly enough, there seems to be no such instruction in the VAX (This from R'ingTFM. I have pitifully little VAX experience.) ^ / ------/---- cp@jido.b30.ingr.com (Craig Presson) / /