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[ih] NCP and TCP implementations
- Subject: [ih] NCP and TCP implementations
- From: leo at vegoda.org (Leo Vegoda)
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:19:37 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <CAAFtm_VOa2Xmq1aQ9-yLwYDCow9UYE5=anYxd1=uNm7s+=j0sg@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:02 AM Bob Hinden via Internet-history
<internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
[...]
> I later did a TCP implementation for the TAC in H-316 assembly language.
> Was lots of fun doing 32-bit segment calculations on a machine with 15-bit arithmetic.
Do you know why the designers of the TAC chose 15-bit arithmetic for it?
Thanks,
Leo