17 Feb
2012
17 Feb
'12
2:18 p.m.
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'.