Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!lwall From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Standardization questions Message-ID: <1377@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 14:53:01 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1377 Posted: Thu Oct 11 14:53:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 03:47:26 EDT References: <12902@sri-arpa.UUCP> Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 9 Summary: In article <12902@sri-arpa.UUCP> Paul Schauble writes: > The most primative linker I can immediately think of coded the >names into a 32 bit word, using 6 characters from an alphabet of 40. >(Isn;t this what the PDP11 does, rather than radix 50??) The beloved RAD50 has an alphabet of 40 characters. Think octal. Larry Wall {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall