From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !!
Date: 1997/07/08
Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ptt2q$3fu$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.868049804@merv
In article <dewar.868049804@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>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 ...
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. As far as I recall, tghe byte instructions
on the PDP-10 took a "byte descriptor" that also gave the size of the
byte.
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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
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Alan Bowler
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Mark H. Wood
1997-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
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