17 Jan
2017
17 Jan
'17
2:09 a.m.
The mainframes of the 60's and 70's all used 6-bit characters (and
often different encodings for the non alphanumeric characters). So
the Unix folks, including me, had experience with octal long before
Dec.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Toomey" <wkt(a)tuhs.org>
Something I've been meaning to ask for a while: why Unix and octal on
the
PDP-11? Because of the DEC documentation?