24 Sep
2020
24 Sep
'20
8:33 a.m.
Dave: Seymour used ones complement on the 3000 and 6000 series.
Maybe there? The primary HLLs I used on the CDC boxes were FTN and
Pascal, but I would not be surprised if that was were you saw it.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:26 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2020, Steve Nickolas wrote:
(Of course, that assumes NULL is 0, but I
don't think I've run into any
architecture so braindead as to not have NULL=0.)
I don't remember the details mow, but I recall an architecture where NULL
was -0... Turing save us from 1-complement machines!
-- Dave