From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein)
Subject: Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !!
Date: 1997/07/05
Date: 1997-07-05T08:39:41-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33c26a95.105474684@nntp.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33bf5dcc.102201087@nntp.ix.netcom.com
miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein) wrote:
> And, of course, the reason that the byte pointer instructions were
> used mostly for 7 bit objects was that the software convention used 7
> bit characters. I doubt if anyone who saw only the instruction set
> for the PDP6/10 would immediately recognize that the machine was
> designed for 7 bit characters. In retrospect it seems obvious; after
> all, ASCII is a 7 bit code, but in the early 60s when the machine was
> designed ASCII was not commonly used as an instruction set on
> computers.
I meant, of course, that ASCII was not commonly used as a character
set on computers.
Michael M Rubenstein
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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 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein [this message]
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
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