[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <k1gol3$2en$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> I believe LSB, as it fills from the MSB down. (Big endian.)

   Likely correct, as I recall now the msb was 0 and byte pointers
   rolled over to bit offset 0.

> 
> I remember it was possible to either read or write all eight bits
> of nine track tape, but don't remember how to do it. Otherwise,
> as ASCII data the high bit would be ignored. 

   On TOPS-20, the COPY command had a subcommand where you could
   specify the byte size.