I wrote:

> MOVLW   "M"         ;Fill registers STRING through STRING+9 with
> MOVWF   STRING      ;the string "'My string',0".
> MOVLW   "y"
> MOVLW   STRING+1
> ....
> MOVLW   "n"
> MOVWF   STRING+7
> MOVLW   "g"
> MOVWF   STRING+8
> MOVLW   0
> MOVWF   STRING+9

and Jorge Ferreira <jorgegf@mail.telepac.pt> replied:

> I've seen better ways of creating an initialized variable.

    Put your money where your mouth is, Jorge.

    My example does it in twenty instructions and twenty cycles...
    Twenty bucks says that you can't do it faster or shorter.

    -Andy

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