[150090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Fri Feb 17 14:15:20 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:18:53 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <39313.1329505485@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Fri Feb 17 13:11:28 2012
> To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
> Subject: Re: Common operational misconceptions
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:04:45 -0500
> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
>
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:49:13 PST, Owen DeLong said:
> > Now, come on... If you're in the 40-50 range, you should have put octal
> > before hex. :p
>
> IBM S/360 definitely preferred hex. And EBCDIC.
And the _real_ number crunchers used ones-complement arithmetic. Which led to
to mahines that couldn't add -- they did addition by 'complement and subtract'.
