On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > ........... > >>> became popular. >>> >> Really? you cried and laughed over 7 vs. 8 bits? That's lovely (?). >> ;). That eighth bit sure was less confusing than codepoint >> translations > > > > no we had 6 bits in 60 bit words as I recall; extracting the nth character > involved division by 6; smart people did tricks with inverted > multiplications etc etc :( > --
Cool, someone here is older than me! I came in with the 8080, and I remember split octal, but sixes are something I missed out on. > Robin Becker -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
