16 Jan
2017
16 Jan
'17
9:25 p.m.
Warren Toomey wrote:
I understand why other DEC architectures (e.g. PDP-7)
were octal: 18b
is a multiple of 3. But PDP-11 is 16b, multiple of 4. After all, Unix
had its own assembler, so was there a need/reason to use octal?
Octal is a natural fit for the instruction set encoding.