[ih] Octal vs Hex Re: Dotted decimal notation

[Joseph Touch]

> On Dec 29, 2020, at 3:00 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Thankfully that architecture died out so all we have now is binary, at
> least until someone discovers that computers don't necessarily even have
> to be binary….

It’s not dead yet; we can still pick the pockets and look for loose change, so to speak(1).

CAMs typically have three values - 0, 1, and X (don’t care).

Flash memory uses 4, 8, and even 16-valued multi-level cells (MLC).

Joe

(1) from the movie “the Princess Bride", 1987,