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 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. >