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POPJ /pop'J/ N.,v. [from A PDP-10 Return-from-subroutine Instruction] To Return From A Digression.
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POPJ /pop'J/ n.,v.
[from a PDP-10
return-from-subroutine instruction] To return from a digression.
By verb doubling, "Popj, popj" means roughly "Now let's see,
where were we?" See RTI.
Related:
POPJ: /pop'J/ [from a {PDP-10} return-from-subroutine instruction] n.
v. To return from a digression. By verb doubling, "Popj, popj" means roughly "Now let's see, where were we?...
RTI /R-T-I/ interj. The mnemonic for the `return from interrupt' instruction on many computers including the 6502 and 6800.
The variant `RETI' is found among former Z80 hackers (almost nobody programs these things in assembler anymore)....
RTI: /R-T-I/ interj. The mnemonic for the `return from interrupt' instruction on many computers including the 6502 and 6800.
The variant `RETI' is found among former Z80 hackers (almost nobody programs these things in assembler anymore)....
push [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack
and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] (Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/, the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction....
push: [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack
and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] (Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/, the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction....
RVAC: Return from VACatio
pop: /pop/ [from the operation that removes the top of a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are usually saved on the stack] (also capitalized `POP') 1.
vt. To remove something from a {stack} or {pdl}....
End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
..] -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distributio...
Always remember where you came from so you can return.