From DECsystem-10 / DECSYSTEM-20 Processor Reference Manual (June, 1982) DMOVN Double Move Negative Negate the doubleword from location E,E+1 interpreted in double precision floating point and move it to AC,AC+1. If the memory doubleword is fixed point -2^70, set the Trap 1, Overflow and Carry 1 flags. (Negating the equivalent floating point with fraction -1 and the maximum exponent sets the flags, but this is not a normalized number.) If the memory doubleword is zero, set Carry 0 and Carry 1. [...] In the KI10 there is no overflow test as the KI10 lacks double precision fixed point instructions. For floating point the overflow test is really unnecessary, as negatinv a correctly formatted floating point number cannot cause overflow.