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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lyon <pugs78@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: .globl directive -- is this a 35-bit constant?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:55:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exY+A19GudHOvJRbFhquFwzU2RVOEehhawpFXGD=YZ6Br9A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANxB0bSjhBgNFOSYXur6rk7ToQrrC90aFq+iH1JHheivL1njNA@mail.gmail.com>

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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.
>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-28 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-28 19:44 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2024-03-28 19:48 ` [TUHS] " Tom Lyon
2024-03-28 19:55   ` ron minnich [this message]
2024-03-28 19:56 ` Henry Bent
2024-03-28 20:59 ` segaloco via TUHS

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