From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !!
Date: 1997/07/07
Date: 1997-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33C14CEB.3AC7@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.868049804@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> iRichard O'Keefe said
>
> <<Note that 5 ASCII characters per word was a software convention<<
>
> I think that is wrong, there were hardware instructions on the PDP10 that
> used this format, I am pretty sure of this, but it is a while ago ...
The PDP-6 supported any byte size from 1 to 36, but did not support
bytes that crossed word boundaries. As I recall the instructions were
load byte and deposit byte. The PDP-10 and DEC-System 20 were, of
course, the same architecture and also had those instructions.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Senior Software SE
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1997-06-27 0:00 ` HELP ! need to insert value in array !! Ralph Silverman
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
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1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Ed Hook
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Clive D.W. Feather
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Al Bowers
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Christian Froeschlin
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Alan Bowler
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Mark H. Wood
1997-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
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