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From: bhj@bhjat.UUCP (burt janz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 21:54:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 21:54:21 1987
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> Also, the PDP-11 under UNIX has a *7* character limitation (there was not, as
> you implied, a null included at the end). Under RSX it has a 6 character
> limitation because they used a character encoding called Radix-40 that allowed
> you to fit 6 uppercase letters into a 32-bit dword.
> -- 
> -- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
> -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.

I'm sure you mean RAD50.  It fits 3 characters into one 16-bit word, thus
6 characters into 1 32-bit dword.  The whole operating system encodes data
this way (filenames, symbol tables, etc.)

Just a minor correction...

Burt Janz
(still an RSX hack... and PROUD OF IT!!!)

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