29 Mar
2024
29 Mar
'24
1:55 a.m.
yeah I know, but my vague memory is that the 7-bit bytes started to be
preferred. But yeah, it's probably a co-inky-dink, as the three stooges
would say.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:48 PM Tom Lyon <pugs78(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But they had RADIX 50, which would've allowed
global.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:44 PM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
ACPI has 4-byte identifiers (guess why!), but I
just wondered, writing
some assembly:
is it globl, not global, or glbl, because globl would be a one-word
constant on the PDP-10 (5 7-bit bytes)?
Not entirely off track, netbsd at some point (still does?) ran on the
PDP-10.