Shmuel, Who did the inherit the 1108 from ? My dad worked for Unisys on the 1108s....dude
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:43 AM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on > 07/19/2012 > at 09:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
