From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11, Unix, octal?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:31:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6735.1484598679@cesium.clock.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170116201543.GA16532@minnie.tuhs.org>
When I learned DG NOVA assembler in the mid-1970s, octal was it - it was everywhere. I didn't see hexadecimal notation until 8-bit microcomputers started using it in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Just a change in culture, I'd suppose. Hex fits neatly into a byte, and we don't seem to see computers with word sizes that aren't a multiple of 8 any more.
Erik <fair at netbsd.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-16 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-16 19:10 [TUHS] Article on 'not meant to understand this' Steve Johnson
2017-01-16 20:15 ` [TUHS] PDP-11, Unix, octal? Warren Toomey
2017-01-16 20:25 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-01-16 22:31 ` ron minnich
2017-01-16 20:31 ` Erik E. Fair [this message]
2017-01-17 1:09 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-17 1:33 ` William Pechter
2017-01-17 14:28 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-17 15:14 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-01-17 16:53 ` William Cheswick
2017-01-17 14:12 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-17 15:28 ` ron minnich
2017-01-16 20:45 Noel Chiappa
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