In
<cae1xxdf_d59y7eufat1xw5b5omgtwrxhvxojwn9qeefgmzb...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 12/08/2013
at 01:10 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>and I think we all sympathize with the point he is making. There
>is, however, some real hexadecimal data around, beginning with its
>use in IBM 7090 channel programming.
Nonsense; I/O channels on the 7090 were binary. The fact that the 7909
was an 8-bit channel rather than a 6-bit channel doesn't change that.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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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