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From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)
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Subject: Re: ONES COMPLEMENT
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:09:25 -0400
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Just a related link for interested folks (from the UNIVAC 110x world):

  http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/minuszero.html

The current Unisys Clearpath IX/Dorado mainframe line still uses the
same architecture, so it's still an issue.  :-)

-- 
 -Rich Steiner >>>---> http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
    Mainframe/Unix bit twiddler by day, OS/2+Linux+DOS hobbyist by night.
       WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it!
                   The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.