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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Struggling through the "C"
Message-ID: <3707@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 12 Apr 89 12:14:01 GMT
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In article <2393@maccs.McMaster.CA>, fred@maccs.McMaster.CA (Fred Whiteside) writes:
> In article <3697@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> <I don't know if a 'C' compiler exists for the CDC 6400, but in their 6-bit
> <character set ' ' has the ascii value '\00'. The only unused value, I think,
> <is '\77'.

You know, Peter, that's really amazingly stupid phrasing. "ascii value" indeed.

>     Gee, Peter, On our old CDC it was the colon ':' that had a six bit value
>   of zero. Space ' ' was 55 (octal).

Hmm. There were at least two character sets (one with 64 characters and one
with 63... with '\77' unused).

>   Remember that good old =xzfn routine?

Nope.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
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