[ih] byte order, was Octal vs Hex, not Re: Dotted decimal notation

[Dave Crocker]

On 12/30/2020 7:46 AM, Clem Cole via Internet-history wrote:
> His two main grad students at CMU were Harold McFarland and Bill Strecker,
> and much of the original work on the PDP-11 was done there.

So 3 people did the work.  No wonder they settled on octal.

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