From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: scj@yaccman.com (Steve Johnson) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:09:40 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11, Unix, octal? In-Reply-To: <20170116201543.GA16532@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Toomey" Something I've been meaning to ask for a while: why Unix and octal on the PDP-11? Because of the DEC documentation? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: