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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: 6-bit characters (was: Re: Streams in Ada)
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Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> writes:

> 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.

The DEC 10 and the PDP-10 are the same machine.

- Bob