: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:32:54AM -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > Anybody remember RAD-50? It let you represent a 6-character filename > (plus a 3-character extension) in a 16 bit word. RT-11 used it, not > sure if it showed up anywhere else.
Presumably 16 is a typo, but I just had a moderate amount of fun envisaging how that might work: if the characters were restricted to vowels, then 5**6 < 2**14, giving a couple of bits left over for a choice of four preset "three-character" extensions. I can't say that AEIOUA.EX1 looks particularly appealing, though ... -[]z. -- Zero Piraeus: pollice verso http://etiol.net/pubkey.asc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
