In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/11/2006
at 05:50 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>CDC Kronos used 10 because 8 just wasn't enough.
I doubt it. I'm quite sure that the reason was the 60 bit word size.
>The 701 allowed no choice but 8.
Untrue. The design of the 701 had nothing to do with sorting on
offline sorters. You could just as easily sort on 71-80 as on 73-80.
What you had no choice about was reading only columns 1-72. The size
of the sequence number was picked to avoid taking away card columns.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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