In <9307538697441482.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 07/19/2012 at 09:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>Is this because Unisys is deficient in conformance to the standard, >or because IBM's implementation contains an extension to the >standard? No, it's because UNIVAC used ones complement arithmetic on most of its lines, Including the 1108 et al that Unisys inherited. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN