In <CAE1XxDF1kgwAt+nJgHsWHPjuqPwBawHfAC2wQNb7h7=7pfy...@mail.gmail.com>, on 12/22/2013 at 07:10 AM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said:
>Shmuel writes ><begin extract> >Nonsense; I/O channels on the 7090 were binary. The fact that the >7909 was an 8-bit channel rather than a 6-bit channel doesn't change >that. </end extract> >and of course it does 'change that'. Not even close. There is no use of hexadecimal arithmetic in a 7909. >posturing; PKB. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN