Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.104 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.79; '*S*': 0.00; 'think,': 0.07; 'bits': 0.09; 'missed': 0.12; 'wrote': 0.14; '(it': 0.16; 'received:mac.com': 0.16; 'subject:3.3': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'followed': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; 'received:10.0.1': 0.19; 'split': 0.19; 'to:name:python- list@python.org': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; '15,': 0.26; 'am,': 0.29; 'instruction': 0.29; 'words': 0.29; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'cool,': 0.31; 'url:python': 0.33; 'older': 0.33; 'could': 0.34; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'ibm': 0.36; 'url:listinfo': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'received:10.0': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'received:10': 0.37; 'machines': 0.38; 'nov': 0.38; 'received:17': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'liked': 0.60; 'first': 0.61; 'address': 0.63; 'face': 0.64; 'finally': 0.65; 'effectively': 0.66; 'here': 0.66; 'operated': 0.74; 'computers.': 0.84; 'gray': 0.84; 'header:In-reply-to:1': 0.84; 'me!': 0.84; '2013,': 0.91; 'joel': 0.91 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.10.8794,1.0.14,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-11-15_04:2013-11-15,2013-11-15,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=7.0.1-1308280000 definitions=main-1311150102 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: python 3.3 repr From: William Ray Wing In-reply-to: <52863B2A.5080309@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:30:32 -0500 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable References: <52863305.2060303@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <528637DB.6050504@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <52863B2A.5080309@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> To: "python-list@python.org" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) Cc: William Ray Wing X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1384533037 news.xs4all.nl 16007 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:50088 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:59545 On Nov 15, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Robin Becker wrote: > On 15/11/2013 15:07, Joel Goldstick wrote: > ........ >=20 >=20 >=20 >>=20 >> Cool, someone here is older than me! I came in with the 8080, and I >> remember split octal, but sixes are something I missed out on. >=20 > The pdp 10/15 had 18 bit words and could be organized as 3*6 or 2*9, = pdp 8s had 12 bits I think, then came the IBM 7094 which had 36 bits and = finally the CDC6000 & 7600 machines with 60 bits, some one must have = liked 6's > -mumbling-ly yrs- > Robin Becker > --=20 > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Yes, the PDP-8s, LINC-8s, and PDP-12s were all 12-bit computers. = However the LINC-8 operated with word-pairs (instruction in one location = followed by address to be operated on in the next) so it was effectively = a 24-bit computer and the PDP-12 was able to execute BOTH PDP-8 and = LINC-8 instructions (it added one extra instruction to each set that = flipped the mode). First assembly language program I ever wrote was on a PDP-12. (If there = is an emoticon for a face with a gray beard, I don't know it.) -Bill=