The 'hex' I referred for example maybe is old school, working with PSRs and taking on the phone as they saying go to hex address .... In a dump. As a Sysprog on VM, VSE and then MVS this was given terminology ...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Sep 19, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just wondering what would happen if I had a machine with 16 discreet states > per wire or connection (using different voltage levels, colors, frequencies, > or whatever). On such a machine there would be no binary bits, so the lowest > data type might really be hex. > > Mike Schwab wrote: >> Hexadecimal is a way of expressing the value of 4 bit with one number >> or digit. It does not assign a meaning to the data. >> It could be a binary number, a packed decimal number, a floating point >> number (hex float or decimal float or ???), ASCII or UTF-8 characters, >> EBCDIC characters, or a z/Series instruction, > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
