[ih] Octal vs Hex Re: Dotted decimal notation

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Tue Dec 29 15:04:25 PST 2020


In article <8411E171269B5E107DC4731F@[172.27.17.193]> you write:
>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.

It did. It had three bit register numbers and three bit address modes
so if you were looking at instructions octal was great. At character
strings, not so much.




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