From: Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 16:38:16 -0700
Date: 2011-05-05T16:38:16-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rubrum-40C66B.16381505052011@news.albasani.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lnoc3ox2a0.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org
In article <lnoc3ox2a0.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org>,
Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
> Making CHAR_BIT==64 would have made much more sense for the machine
> itself in isolation, but it would have made interoperability with
> other systems quite difficult. It ran Unicos, Cray's BSDish Unix;
> I'm not sure you can even implement Unix with bytes bigger than
> 8 bits.
Could tack on a satellite machine for interoperability
the way ARPANET was first configured. Each big machine
at Illinois, etc. had a Burroughs (6600?) that actually
did the networking.
--
Michael Press
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2011-04-28 1:14 ` KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG robin
2011-04-28 11:42 ` e p chandler
2011-04-29 1:50 ` David Bernier
2011-04-29 2:09 ` Ian Collins
2011-04-29 3:01 ` Eric Sosman
2011-04-29 3:09 ` Ian Collins
2011-05-08 7:34 ` Uno
2011-05-11 5:38 ` Marni Zollinger
2011-04-29 6:15 ` nmm1
2011-04-29 3:16 ` David Bernier
2011-04-29 2:34 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-04-29 7:04 ` Uno
2011-04-30 10:48 ` robin
2011-05-05 1:12 ` Uno
2011-04-29 15:13 ` Keith Thompson
2011-04-29 17:41 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-04-29 19:53 ` Keith Thompson
2011-05-05 23:38 ` Michael Press [this message]
2011-04-29 22:45 ` Seebs
2011-04-30 4:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-04-29 22:43 ` Seebs
2011-04-29 9:43 ` robin
2011-05-01 15:31 ` Thad Smith
2011-05-01 19:58 ` Ian Collins
2011-05-02 0:01 ` James Kuyper
2011-05-02 0:42 ` Ian Collins
2011-05-02 2:34 ` James Kuyper
2011-05-02 2:50 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-05-02 4:21 ` Thad Smith
2011-05-02 7:31 ` nmm1
2011-05-23 4:18 ` robin
2011-05-23 7:20 ` robin
2011-05-23 6:52 ` robin
2011-05-23 6:52 ` robin
2011-05-23 6:52 ` robin
2011-05-23 6:53 ` robin
2011-05-23 7:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28 7:19 ` robin
2011-06-28 8:44 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-06-28 9:19 ` Chris H
2011-06-28 9:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28 11:59 ` robin
2011-06-28 12:16 ` Chris H
2011-06-28 15:44 ` Peter Flass
2011-06-28 12:33 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 13:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28 22:39 ` Brian Salter-Duke
2011-06-28 12:32 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 13:03 ` Chris H
2011-06-28 14:25 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 15:01 ` Chris H
2011-06-29 0:20 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-29 8:38 ` Michael Press
2011-06-28 16:04 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-28 16:36 ` Chris H
2011-06-28 16:51 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-29 0:27 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-29 1:00 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-29 16:48 ` Phil Carmody
2011-06-28 16:52 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-28 17:06 ` David Bernier
2011-06-28 21:11 ` Gib Bogle
2011-06-29 4:47 ` Mart van de Wege
2011-07-02 6:49 ` Gib Bogle
2011-07-02 15:59 ` Mart van de Wege
2011-07-02 21:57 ` Gib Bogle
2011-06-29 7:36 ` nmm1
2011-06-29 9:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
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