Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mo From: mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: The Power of **2 Message-ID: <44037@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 09:54:15 EDT Article-I.D.: beno.44037 Posted: Thu Jul 23 09:54:15 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 06:34:51 EDT Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 13 On a lighter note, I find it rather humorous that when Sperry, purveyor of 36-bit word machines, and Burroughs, purveyor of 48-bit word (and also bit-variable word-length) machines combined, they managed to pick a catchphrase absolutely antithetical to both product lines. Well, I guess the do base 2 arithmetic, but wait, didn't the Univacs use ones-comp, or was it only classic CDC machines??? -Mike O'Dell