5 Nov
2005
5 Nov
'05
2:59 p.m.
Gil Carrick wrote:
...
Umm what about the sign bit?
Bytw this 2000 not 1950 so we can use ascii encoding. :)
You might as well make it decimal, too, Dwight.
That way you
can use the
8-4 and 8-2 combinations to mark the end of a word... :)
(I guess it's been done!)
Kinda. The IBM 1401, 1440, 1410, but they used an extra bit in each (6 bit)
called a word mark rather than blow off a digit. It was designed to hold
alphabetic info as well as doing decimal math.
Gil