[Info-vax] Running OpenVMS native on x86 . . .

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:28:20 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article
> <121a406e-72be-48f8-948c-6a44da363e7b at da3g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
> John Wallace <johnwallace4 at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> Anyway, TECO speaks octal, decimal, and hex. What more could anyone
>> want?
> 
>    Binary and base 36, of course.

In PDP days we had a routine which packed sales unit numbers into a 
series of base 32 6-byte fields.  Heaven knows why, since 6 bytes was 
overkill even for their ASCII digit representation with this particular 
app.

It ran like a dog, CPU bound.



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