From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 05:47:09 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] [TUHS} PDP-11, Unix, octal? In-Reply-To: <86lgu8rjio.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> References: <50a7fbcbb6af280eb108fff1361c37ee1718bff0@webmail.yaccman.com> <86lgu8rjio.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> Message-ID: <20170118184709.GC82883@server.rulingia.com> On 2017-Jan-18 07:04:31 +0100, Lars Brinkhoff 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 949 bytes Desc: not available URL: