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   John Levine to All   
   Re: jumping around, branch splitting   
   08 Nov 25 21:08:39   
   
   From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   According to Michael S  :   
   >I would imagine that in old times return iinstruction was less common   
   >than indirect addressing itself.   
      
   On several of the machines I used a subroutine call stored the return   
   address in the first word of the routine and branched to that address+1.   
   The return was just an indirect jump.   
      
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