From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [TUHS] [TUHS} PDP-11, Unix, octal?
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 05:47:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170118184709.GC82883@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86lgu8rjio.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org>
On 2017-Jan-18 07:04:31 +0100, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
>The PDP-10 did not have a fixed byte size. Were there any 9-bit
>machines?
The Honeywell 6000 series (aka 66/DPS, a rebadged GE 6xx series) was
36-bit and supported either 6-bit or 9-bit characters. I don't recall
how you selected which you were using but I recall both Pascal and APL
used the 9-bit byte.
--
Peter Jeremy
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-18 2:33 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-18 3:06 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-18 3:36 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-18 6:53 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-01-18 7:31 ` ron minnich
2017-01-18 8:09 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-01-18 21:04 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-18 21:42 ` Charles Anthony
2017-01-18 6:04 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-01-18 18:47 ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2017-01-18 18:58 ` Charles Anthony
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2017-01-18 14:28 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-01-17 2:23 Doug McIlroy
2017-01-18 16:47 ` Clem Cole
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