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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Encapsulating Ada.Direct_IO
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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.

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