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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Encapsulating Ada.Direct_IO
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:05:49 +0100
Date: 2010-11-18T18:05:47+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ky7nsia9ahcg$.16m348t3t0y2l$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8bb3a7c0-c473-4c35-bc6e-3920ce80e6a8@q36g2000vbi.googlegroups.com

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:31:20 -0800 (PST), Adam Beneschan wrote:

> Then there was a
> DEC machine that used 36-bit words and represented strings by sticking
> five 7-bit ASCII characters in each word, but I don't remember much
> else.

RADIX-50?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Radix-50

It was also used on 8-bit machines to encode file names in the FILES-11
file system.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17  4:44 Encapsulating Ada.Direct_IO Bryan
2010-11-17  5:20 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-26 15:31   ` Bryan
2010-11-17 12:25 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-18  1:16   ` Randy Brukardt
2010-11-18  2:21     ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-18 16:36       ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-18 18:21         ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-18 18:36           ` Randy Brukardt
2010-11-18 19:48           ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-18 20:15             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-18  7:39     ` AdaMagica
2010-11-18 18:38       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-11-18  9:46     ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-11-18 16:31     ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-18 17:05       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
     [not found]         ` <ENidndoH8qoqjHvRnZ2dnUVZ_j-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>
2010-11-19  8:24           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-19 16:19             ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-18 18:45       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-11-24 21:31     ` Warren
2010-11-17 22:32 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-11-17 23:03   ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-17 23:11     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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