Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 01. Mar 2025, 22:07:30
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 11:43:11 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
Octal was fine, right up until the PDP-11 came along with five octal
digits and one leftover bit per word.
And yet the PDP-11 community happily continued using octal. It wasn’t
until the VAX that they followed the microprocessor world and switched
(mostly) to hex.