From: cp@jido.b30.ingr.com (Craig Presson)
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 12:58:17 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Trapdoors
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In <9302212232.AA12362@versant.com>, henry strickland writes:
|> # From cypherpunks-request@toad.com Sun Feb 21 14:14:43 1993
|> # 
|> # Does anybody have a good idea what applications this is useful for?
|> 
|> The old CDC CYBER machines had population count in its instruction
|> set.  Perhaps some scientific-type programmers would know what they
|> used it for.  The CYBER did not have a lot of instructions -- they
|> were pretty practical about what they put in.   i.e.  != VAX 

More precedent: DG Eclipses have a COB (COunt Bits) instruction.
Interestingly enough, there seems to be no such instruction in the
VAX (This from R'ingTFM. I have pitifully little VAX experience.)
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