[ih] Octal vs Hex Re: Dotted decimal notation

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 4:57 PM -0500 Bill Ricker via 
Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Since the PDP-11 was from DEC, Octal was the official binary
> representation *despite* the 16-bit wordsize; the frontpanel address/data
> load toggles were tinted in alternating triples same as on their 18- and
> 36-bit systems. (VAX11/780 dropped the frontpanel.)

Didn't the 11, like the 10, also have some 3-bit fields in the instruction 
set? I recall that octal made it really easy to see field values in the 
10's instructions.