26 Jun
2004
26 Jun
'04
9:22 a.m.
another reason, the CDC 6400 (circa 1960s) COMPASS assembly language instruction set made
sense "opcode" wise to express it in octal. They had 15 bit, 30 bit, and 60 bit
instructions with a 60 bit bus.
best regards, Steve Thatcher (who does still write in assembler...and most everything
else)