swap(x,y)

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <33719 at ism780c.isc.com>, news at ism780c.isc.com (News system) writes:

|        IF SENSE SWITCH  -- gave access to switches on the operators console

  This was the way we read environment variables. There were 22
switches, read into our 22 bit words.
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|        SENSE LIGHT      -- to turn on a light on the operators console

  Dynamic display of program trace, stack usage, etc.

  We had the right ideas 30 years ago, just not the right names for
them. What good is a system with no blinking lights?
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon