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<CAE1XxDF1kgwAt+nJgHsWHPjuqPwBawHfAC2wQNb7h7=7pfy...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 12/22/2013
at 07:10 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>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'.
Not even close. There is no use of hexadecimal arithmetic in a 7909.
>posturing;
PKB.
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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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