From: scj@yaccman.com (Steve Johnson)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11, Unix, octal?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:09:40 -0800 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <20170116201543.GA16532@minnie.tuhs.org>
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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.
Steve
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From: "Warren Toomey" <wkt@tuhs.org>
Something I've been meaning to ask for a while: why Unix and octal on
the
PDP-11? Because of the DEC documentation?
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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
2017-01-17 1:09 ` Steve Johnson [this message]
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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