From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,76b1fcc14e8dced X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,76b1fcc14e8dced X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,8b6c45fbebd7d3b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9c309a1859318a1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114917,76b1fcc14e8dced X-Google-Attributes: gid114917,public From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein) Subject: Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !! Date: 1997/07/05 Message-ID: <33c26a95.105474684@nntp.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 254812142 References: <33A9C27C.22F7@post4.tele.dk> <5oci49$97g@crl.crl.com> <866920621snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <5p0v7l$9uc@nntp.seflin.org> <33b64c2f.43589878@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <5pht85$d4o$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <33be891f.47731103@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <33bf5dcc.102201087@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Organization: Netcom X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Jul 05 8:39:41 AM PDT 1997 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-05T08:39:41-07:00 List-Id: 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