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Octal is nice with a 12-bit machine but octal is absolutely awful when using bytes on a 16-bit machine. The problem is that the two bytes are encoded differentl
by kens 3y ago
Octal is nice with a 12-bit machine but octal is absolutely awful when using bytes on a 16-bit machine. The problem is that the two bytes are encoded differently in octal. For example, the string "AB" is 4142 in hex while "BA" is 4241; the two bytes are easy to decode. In octal, "AB" is 40502 while "BA" is 41101; you can't see what's going on.
- kragen 3y agoyes, that's true; multiplying a byte by 400 to form a word is kind of a pain i had a heathkit h8 which had an unusual approach to this problem it displayed memory addresses on its front panel in octal, from 000000 up to 377377