Shmuel writes <begin extract> 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. </end extract>
and of course it does 'change that'. The bard put it well in Loves labours lost: His eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous and thrasonical. I grow weary of his posturing; but there is, finally, nothing--beyond an occasional complaint like this one--to be done about it. He has every right to behave as he does. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
