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Re: Common operational misconceptions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Perrine)
Fri Feb 17 14:20:17 2012

Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:19:29 -0800
From: Tom Perrine <tperrine@scea.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <39313.1329505485@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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On 2/17/12 11:04 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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.
> 

GCOS - 36 bits and Octal and BCD (ASCII added later)
DEC 10 and 20 - 36 bits and Octal
PDP-8 - Octal

- --tep

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