> From [email protected] Fri Feb 17 13:11:28 > 2012 > To: Owen DeLong <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Common operational misconceptions > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:04:45 -0500 > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:49:13 PST, Owen DeLong said: > > Now, come on... If you're in the 40-50 range, you should have put octal > > before hex. :p > > IBM S/360 definitely preferred hex. And EBCDIC.
And the _real_ number crunchers used ones-complement arithmetic. Which led to to mahines that couldn't add -- they did addition by 'complement and subtract'.
