[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Fri May 25 04:06:22 EDT 2012


On Thu, 24 May 2012 23:18:54 -0700, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> However, 6 characters also pack nicely into two 16-bit words, using
> Radix 50...

Even Dibol had routines to pack and unpack RAD-50.

6 characters also worked nicely for index entries along with an integer*2 
address (don't ask).

-- 
Paul Sture



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