Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The Power of **2 Message-ID: <6801@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 10:58:53 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.6801 Posted: Fri Jul 24 10:58:53 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 14:15:27 EDT References: <44037@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 13 In article <44037@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) writes: >On a lighter note, I find it rather humorous that... >Well, I guess the do base 2 arithmetic, but wait, didn't >the Univacs use ones-comp, or was it only classic They sure used to! I had to convert a tape of 1's comp 24 bit numbers to 2's comp 36 bits. >CDC machines??? -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {chinet | philabs | sesimo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me