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Noel Chiappa writes:
> I can't answer that directly, but I will point you at IEN-56, "CRC
> Checksum Calculation", by Dave Reed (11-Sep-78):
>
>     https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien56.pdf

I can't help but notice the first program is PDP-10 code for running
on ITS.  ObTUHS: the other is a PDP-11 asssembly language program for
Unix.  Machine readable versions for both can be procured.