Re: Streams in Ada

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

If we don't watch it, we're going to start those "Old Guys" stories. :-)
Like finding out what typing your name as a command string to TECO would do.

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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote in message
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> In article <wccg0frw5se.fsf@world.std.com>, Robert A Duff
<bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> > "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:
> >
> >> The PDP-10 was more closely oriented to "Sixbit" characters. (Or
> >> "Half-ASCII" - basically ASCII with the lower case & some other stuff
gone.)
> >> IIRC, the Tops-10 OS had the 6x3 file name restrictions basically
because it
> >> would make filenames fit with Sixbit & into even multiples of machine
words.
> >
> > This is more a property of Tops-10 than the PDP-10 hardware.
> >
> > The hardware supported "bytes", which could be from 1 to 36 bits each --
> > there's nothing special about 6-bit bytes.
>
> 6-bit bytes were adequate to meet the needs of the time.
> As I recall, ITS (Incompatible Timesharing System), which
> predated Tops-10, used 6x6 filenames.