john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) (11/09/88)
In article <398@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
]Charles Simmons may remember the GE635's GTB (Gray to Binary) instruction,
]which executes a long chain of XORs, used to convert radar data to binary.
]We had real trouble coming up with another use for this. Maybe Hypercube
]routing?
GECOS-III (Later GCOS) used the GTB for a hash function in the
printer spooler (SYSOUT).
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