ICWS is yet another
acronym and stands for
International
Core Wars Standard.
There are two types of standards out there:
ICWS'88 - an
old school standard, with 9 simple instructions that support
pre-decrement.
ICWS'94 - a much more complex instruction set,
pre-increment and
pre-decrement,
post-increment and
post-decrement,
p-space and many other nifty things you can dwelve into if you visit www.
koth.org .