[Info-vax] Deathrow Status

[AEF]

On Saturday, September 20, 2014 6:29:11 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2014-09-20, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > The Deathrow cluster is down.
> 
> > There was a surprise-relocation of the cluster hardware into another 
> > rack in the Quadrant Information Security data center.
> 
> Serious response: thanks for the information. It will be interesting
> to see why it happened.
> 
> > Things I don't know:
> 
> > 1: when it'll be back.
> > 10: whether it'll be back.
> > 11: what went wrong; whether hardware, software, or re-cabling.
> > 100: when further details or status will be available.
> > 101: when console access might be reestablished.
> > 110: etc.
> 
> Not so serious: base 2 list numbering is old hat. :-) If you want to
> get really creative, try outputting the EBCDIC or Radix-50 binary
> values for the numeric digits in those character sets.
> 
> Simon.
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> 
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> 
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Why not use base 1?

1 = 1
11 = 2
111 = 3
1111 = 4

Subtraction is a breeze!

11111
-  11 
=====
111

OK, zero and fractions are a problem, but you don't need them for this purpose.

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