On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:13:58AM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 4/27/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, I remember learning that from colleagues (school never taught it) > > and thinking "yet another IBM concept that can be tossed in the same > > trashcan as EBCDIC." > > Not IBM. At least in those olden days, they used sign-magnitude arithmetic. > Control Data, among others used one's complement arithmetic. The > negative of 000000 is 111111. > > carl
Please don't upset my comfortable prejudices with pesky facts. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
