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#! rnews 1435 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!qualcomm.com!uwvax!tricia!newsmaster From: Jay.Jaeger@msn.fullfeed.com (Jay R. Jaeger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 03:44:39 GMT Organization: The Computer Collection Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32922cb2.1186391@news.msn.fullfeed.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <562i2k$f3a@kirin.wwa.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <328FA2B0.3200@ceco.ceco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cubeppp.msn.fullfeed.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99f/32.299 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26636 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1593 alt.folklore.computers:125097 John Hobson <jhobson@ceco.ceco.com> wrote: > >How about writing FORTRAN on an IBM 1620 with 4000 12-bit words >of memory? Been there, done that. > If so, that was a very unique 1620. The ones I knew used 6 bits plus a flag bit, and a parity bit. It was a BCD character based machine, a characteristic it shared with the IBM 1400 series. --- Jay R. Jaeger The Computer Collection Jay.Jaeger@msn.fullfeed.com visit http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~cube