[35757] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Inane ... even for NANOG.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Thu Mar 15 16:08:23 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Hank Nussbacher' <hank@att.net.il>,
"NANOG (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:43:58 -0800
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank@att.net.il]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:35 AM
> To: Roeland Meyer
> Cc: 'Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu'
> Subject: Re: Inane ... even for NANOG.
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>
> >
> > > From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:57 AM
> >
> > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:22:52 PST, Roeland Meyer
> > > <rmeyer@mhsc.com>said:
> > > > > 16.1.16.1; I don't
> > > > > Sorry, it was the hex representation, of course.
> > >
> > > > HEX:=="313631313631"
> > >
> > > I think the intended value was 0x10011001
> >
> > And the signifigance of this bit pattern is ...?
> >
> > [from too many decades doing assembly level communications
> drivers to handle
> > both ASCII/EIA and EBCDIC. Nothing there is either special
> or amusing,
> > anymore. Not for decades.]
> >
> > so ... who is Fifi?
>
> 15 in hex is x'0f'. 16 is x'1f'. 15.1.15.1 would be fifi.
> 16.1.16.1 is
> something else.
15 = 0x0f
16 = 0x10
011001011001
it still makes no sense.
