[ih] "network unix"
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Sun Oct 9 13:51:23 PDT 2016
> Wow, people are actually reading this stuff... Thanks to everyone who
> pointed out that PDP-8s didn't have 8-bit byte. Tough audience...
no. it's just that the digital series is well under the altzheimer's
threshold of most of us. i did not come into the dec world until the
pdp-8 and -11 and. much later, the sail-10.
i was trapped in the ibm lameframe (704/40/94) world, and later the
360s, which had its own rather large minis. the architectures of the
1620 (6-bit bcd word) and 1401 (8-bit bcd with zone punches and a word
mark) were much more fun. the 1130 was 16-bit, boring, and short-lived.
alas, poor yorick. i knew him, horatio.
randy
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