On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Robert Woodhead wrote:
Nah - give me a Sinclair ZX spectrum any day :)
You young whippersnappers have it easy. Why, when I was a lad, the
bytes only had 6 bits. And we couldn't afford twos-complement
arithmetic.
Robert "CDC Cyber 6600, for example" Woodhead
LOL ... we had 9 bit bytes on the Multics system I learned PL/1 on
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