Andrew Savige wrote: > twos complement machine -- and I'm not aware of any perl running > on any non twos complement machine.
I ported Perl 1.0 (and probably 2.0) to UNIX 1100 (UNIX as guest OS on Univac 1100). The machine was 36-bit, ones complement, word addressable. Porting software to this beast was often a challenge. Fortunately, I haven't had to use that hardware in a long, long time (~1989)! -- Eric Krohn