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Oh, I have fond memories of 36-bit byte pointers. My first two programming jobs were in PDP-10/20 Assembly. Occasionally someone will complain about network s
by valenciarose 6y ago
Oh, I have fond memories of 36-bit byte pointers.
My first two programming jobs were in PDP-10/20 Assembly. Occasionally someone will complain about network specs that say octet instead of byte. And I‘ll just casually say, well some machines had variable byte sizes and go back to what I was doing, waiting for them to start sputtering.
- wglb 6y agoHi. The only place I have seen equivalent instructions are in Common Lisp
- msla 6y ago> And I‘ll just casually say, well some machines had variable byte sizes and go back to what I was doing, waiting for them to start sputtering. Maybe make a remark about word marks, or decimal machines. Are you sufficiently sputtered yet?
- 082349872349872 6y agoWord marks, as in the Can't Add Doesn't Even Try? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620