[ih] "network unix"

[John Levine]

In article <5f114833-c93d-dac7-a6b9-1e02fe9ce142 at 3kitty.org> you write:
>Opcode 7002.  From Wikipedia:
>
>7002 – BSW – Byte Swap 6-bit "bytes" (PDP 8/e and up)

The 8/e was very late in the PDP-8 series.  Back when I was
programming an '8 we either stored one ASCII character per word, or
three characters in two words.

I would guess the byte swap was handy for some of the later disc or
dectape operating systems that used pdp-10 style sixbit file names.

R's,
John