17 Jan
2017
17 Jan
'17
3:28 p.m.
"Steve Johnson" <scj(a)yaccman.com> wrote:
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.
Bit IIRC, this has been done with 10 6 bit chars in a 60 bit word.
Did people use octal in this area?
Jörg
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