Re: started applying Marcus' patch

mark benedetto king <bking@inquira.com> writes:

> Some old UNIVACs have 9-bit bytes. That means 36-bit words, btw. The
> UNICOS I played with also had TWO different character sets: the 9-bit
> one and the 6-bit one (6 chars per word!). The 6-bit one was used for
> efficient terminal I/O.

Um, is there more than one instance of operating systems called
"UNICOS"? The UNICOS I know is for Crays (UNI for UNIX, since it's a
SysV, COS for Cray Operating System, which was the old OS before they
figured that going UNIX was probably the only commercially viable
solution) and will hardly run on a 36-bit UNIVAC.

  // Marcus

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Received on Thu Jul 18 18:49:59 2002