Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Flags (Re: arithmetic and endian history) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:27:44 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 5 Message-ID: <86qzi8omzj.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <10uks4f$1dqo$1@gal.iecc.com> <86tsn5pm2i.fsf@linuxsc.com> <2026Oct1.170516@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <1790870670-5857@newsgrouper.org> <119n1er$1ir2$1@gal.iecc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="1733250"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+FV0Pmt4mw0lBWNBf/0c0FqGDvAOdZ1p4="; posting-host="9f0a6e81040d3c5422bdb3b3eebcaf4c" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FaK/RzdDoKq7kpE6YW/8HPgLy70= sha1:+qKqvNAcgkjHZtRncMfcBO2q2Eg= sha256:IZFoW44bkoQ0Nds5LgfcGhrcD6Xh43iloci33LK67OI= sha1:kpTzK0GLHLJ10lwe4ykAN8C/Hos= sha256:3uoGCWAAxdzk0yPaxDaMwoCsS25FjpGX5NMevgquoxw= Xref: csiph.com comp.arch:118374 John Levine writes: > I'm not aware of any pure two's complement machines before S/360. How about the PDP-4?