From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:28:46 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11, Unix, octal? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <587e2a1e.bls9D6AZ7WMsQuDc%schily@schily.net> "Steve Johnson" wrote: > The mainframes of the 60's and 70's all used 6-bit characters (and > often different encodings for the non alphanumeric characters).  So > the Unix folks, including me, had experience with octal long before > Dec. Bit IIRC, this has been done with 10 6 bit chars in a 60 bit word. Did people use octal in this area? Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/