Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-02-26, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Multics used 8-bit bytes on a 36-bit Honeywell 6000. The developers tried
to discourage the use of 9-bit bytes - I was told that “nothing” used them,
but I found out WordPerfect used them for metacharacters.

 
I never got to work on Univac's 36-bit systems, but I heard that
they could do 9-bit stuff.
 

I think Univac was all mixed up. When I last looked at the 1108, they
supported three different character sets: Fielddata (6-bit, for the army),
BCD, and ASCII. I believe they had at least two different COBOL compilers,
Fielddata And ASCII, and maybe three.

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Pete