From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:31:19 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11, Unix, octal? In-Reply-To: <20170116201543.GA16532@minnie.tuhs.org> References: Message-ID: <6735.1484598679@cesium.clock.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