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From: "\"Nils O. Selåsdal\"" <NOS@Utel.no>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] addition to fortune file
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:33:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435345BA.1060300@Utel.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c5d12c$3b4ceaf0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>

erik quanstrom wrote:
>>From the ISO-2022/ECMA-035 spec:
> 
> 4.2	byte
> 	A bit string that is operated upon as a unit.
> 
> 	NOTE 3
> 	Each bit has the value either ZERO or ONE.
Guess they didn't want to bother with those russian trinary machines[1]

[1] http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/museum/PHOTOS/Setun-1.html


       reply	other threads:[~2005-10-17  6:33 UTC|newest]

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2005-10-17  6:33 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal" [this message]
2005-10-18  3:19   ` McLone
2005-10-19  9:05 guest
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2005-10-15  1:38 erik quanstrom

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