Re: 6-bit characters (was: Re: Streams in Ada)

[Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>]

Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> writes:
> 
> > I've never used the PDP-10, but ...
> >
> > I learned to program in Fortran 66 (IV) on a CDC 6400 with 60-bit words.
> > It used a 6-bit character set, so 10H fit into one word. The next
> > machine I used was a DEC 10 with TOPS-10. It had 36-bit words, but I
> > never encountered 6-bit characters on it; 7-bit ASCII IIRC.
> 
> The DEC 10 and the PDP-10 are the same machine.

How interesting. Since you and MDC both say this, I only need one more
person to tell me this for it to be a fact ("What I tell you 3 times is
true."). I was aware of the PDP-11, but no one ever mentioned that the
DEC 10 was the PDP-10.

The DEC 10 was supposed to be able to handle 100 users simultaneously.
Boy, was it slow.

BTW, I didn't use TECO on the DEC 10; I used SOS.

Jeffrey Carter