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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
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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