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@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@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.