Re: [Simh] On number bases

2015-02-06 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:35:35AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, dave porter wrote: > > >Octal makes sense for the PDP11 since the instruction > >format is divided into 3-bit fields (operand modes, > >register specifiers, etc). > > > >Hex makes sense for the VAX since the inst

Re: [Simh] On number bases

2015-02-06 Thread Richard Cornwell
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:35:35 +0100 (CET) Andreas Davour wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, dave porter wrote: > > > Octal makes sense for the PDP11 since the instruction > > format is divided into 3-bit fields (operand modes, > > register specifiers, etc). > > > > Hex makes sense for the VAX since the