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How to pronounce XOR...really?
GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: TimFox on March 02, 2021, 04:53:29 pm ---No. “Z” is never pronounced as “eks”.
“Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter”. (King Lear, Act 2, Scene 2).
By the way, I always say “ex or” since it is unambiguous.
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Obviously though, the 'X' is an abbreviation for the word 'Exclusive', meaning it must be 'OR' :)
MIS42N:
I don't think I have ever heard someone say xor. If discussed, IIRC they say 'exclusive or'. Not that it is a common discussion.
Such a useful instruction. Exchange a register with a memory location XOR A,B XOR B,A XOR A,B. Or two buffers at location A and B, move the pointer between them. First Mask = XOR A,B. start with pointer=A, To flip Pointer=Pointer XOR Mask. Useful for a string of compare equal on processors that don't have a compare (e.g PIC 8-bit) using Z for result but not disturbing C (add or subtract works too, but unnecessarily alters C in the process). Out of curiosity, I looked at the last program I wrote. More than 50 XORs.
A rose by any (other) name is just as sweet.
JohnnyMalaria:
XOR has an interest property particular when applied to images. If you XOR image A with image B and then XOR the result with image B you get back to image A. This was a useful trick in my ZX Spectrum days for some long forgotten reason.
fourfathom:
--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on March 04, 2021, 12:54:51 am ---XOR has an interest property particular when applied to images. If you XOR image A with image B and then XOR the result with image B you get back to image A. This was a useful trick in my ZX Spectrum days for some long forgotten reason.
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Back in 1976 someone had a patent on the XOR video display cursor.
And as for people saying "exclusive or" instead of XOR, in the olden days ('70's - 90's) we hardware guys said XOR. We tried like hell to save gates, so why not save syllables?
helius:
--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on March 02, 2021, 10:17:41 pm ---That's a neat trick for a donkey.
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The PowerPC instruction set architecture has
eieio ;"Enforce In-order Execution of I/O"
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