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From: russ lyttle <lyttlec@removegmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
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On 2/27/19 3:26 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2019-02-27 07:20, russ lyttle wrote:
> 
>> That is all true. You could make the case that C turns your computer 
>> into a PDP-11. I was being generous.
> 
> Huh, you could not write
> 
>     MOV -(PC),-(PC)
> 
> in C, if I correctly remember the famous PDP-11 one-liner.
> 
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/1227244/pdp-11-still-working-in-nuclear-plants---for-37-more-years

  In case the reader doesn't know the reference. IIRC, there was a way 
to inject that code from a C program. As one commented, the code is on a 
9-track tape somewhere.