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[ih] "network unix"
- Subject: [ih] "network unix"
- From: johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)
- Date: 10 Oct 2016 19:03:19 -0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
In article <5f114833-c93d-dac7-a6b9-1e02fe9ce142 at 3kitty.org> you write:
>Opcode 7002. From Wikipedia:
>
>7002 ? BSW ? Byte Swap 6-bit "bytes" (PDP 8/e and up)
The 8/e was very late in the PDP-8 series. Back when I was
programming an '8 we either stored one ASCII character per word, or
three characters in two words.
I would guess the byte swap was handy for some of the later disc or
dectape operating systems that used pdp-10 style sixbit file names.
R's,
John