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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,29f36805b9a20fe8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-03 07:28:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 6-bit characters (was: Re: Streams in Ada) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:10:52 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9aclld$cr1$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9aa3dd$efb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9aab1e$hhm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3AC8F892.87B56B74@boeing.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 986307053 13153 136.170.200.133 (3 Apr 2001 14:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Apr 2001 14:10:53 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6400 Date: 2001-04-03T14:10:53+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Jeffrey Carter" wrote in message news:3AC8F892.87B56B74@boeing.com... > 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