Re: rep movsb vs. simpler instructions for memcpy/memmove

In article <nOJAP.403742$zz8b.11690@fx09.iad>, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott
Lurndal) wrote:

One place I worked, we serialized checkins using a rubber chicken,
which was hung on the cube wall.

The VAX my employers started with, well before my time, could handle
everyone editing and checking in/out, but could handle a maximum of two
instances of the product in its test harness running simultaneously.
There were two small flags, which you had to have one of you launched the
test harness.

John