On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:55:17 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Hex came into vogue in the DEC world with the VAX, which was both > byte-addressed and had a hex-oriented instruction encoding.
Indeed. In 2018 when nearly all computers (aside from some DSPs) have standardised on the same number of bits, it is hard to remember that in Ancient Days there was damn little standardisation of computers. You had computers with 6, 9, or even 60 bits per byte, machines that used BCD in preference to binary ints, and even a few Russian-made computers that didn't use binary at all, but ternary. I'm also told that some of those computers didn't run Windows. *wink* -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
