Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!cit-vax!polecat!fritz From: fritz@polecat.caltech.edu (Fritz "3 points" Nordby) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Radix-50 and namei() [was Re: machine word sizes] Message-ID: <3364@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 15:56:25 EDT Article-I.D.: cit-vax.3364 Posted: Tue Jul 28 15:56:25 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jul-87 01:24:32 EDT References: <2807@phri.UUCP> <565@saturn.ucsc.edu> <1184@k.cs.cmu.edu> <2817@phri.UUCP> <1502@ihdev.ATT.COM> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: fritz@polecat.Caltech.EDU (Fritz "3 points" Nordby) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 20 Keywords: radix-50 namei pdp-7 Summary: which Radix-50 are you talking about? In article <1502@ihdev.ATT.COM> pdg@ihdev.UUCP (Joe Isuzu) writes: >Here is the table: [deleted table giving one radix-50 to ascii equivalence] Well, that's one of 'em. Actually there were at least two Radix-50 character sets promugated by DEC. I don't have the tables here in front of me, but the tables for the pdp-11 and DECsystem-10 versions of Radix-50 were distinctly different (and, of course, incompatible). >Now, don't we all wish namei() was *that* easy? Just as a side note: namei() hasn't changed its name or its information passing mechanism since 1969. Yup, that's right: u.u_base, u.u_count, etc. date from pdp-7 days. Except then they didn't have the extra "u_" in their names. Of course, back then there weren't pathnames as we know them now. Fritz Nordby. fritz@vlsi.caltech.edu cit-vax!fritz ``I get off on rocks.''