In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/2005
at 08:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>PDP-11 struggled with representing 16-bit words and 8-bit characters
>in octal for a while, then turned to hex, which I perceived at the
>time as an IBM 360 innovation.
Hexadecimal[1] was used by Librascope (LGP-30?) well before the S/360.
Does anyone remember whether the Stretch (IBM 7030) documentation and
software used hexadecimal notation?
[1] As I recall they didn't use A-F doe 10-15 and they called it
something like sexagisimal; I don't see much difference between
using a Greek root and a Latin root.
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