[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Dave Froble]

On 1/28/2023 10:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/28/2023 10:39 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 1/28/2023 8:28 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> One of the absolute FIRST things that I was told about floating point
>>> variables in my first programming class was to NEVER use them to represent
>>> money.
>>
>> What if you didn't have a choice?
>>
>> RSTS/E V04b
>>
>> Signed word integers
>> Strings
>> Single and double D-float
>>
>> That's all there was ...
>
> There is always integers and implied decimal.
>
> Not fun though.
>
> And one need an integer with enough bits ...
>
> Could PDP-11 do 32 bit integers?
>
> Arne

What part of "signed word integers" didn't you understand?  As in 16 bits. 
-32768 to 32767.


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