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

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

The DEC-10 is the PDP-10. The Sixbit stuff was sort of a throwback to an
earlier age by the time I started using it. Most stuff rather quickly
migrated to 7-bit ASCII, but there were still lots of things that had their
history in Sixbit. Not so much that Sixbit got used regularly - just that at
one time it did, so lots of aspects of the machine and its software were
colored by it.

MDC

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"Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Jeffrey Carter