23 Jun
2016
23 Jun
'16
10:37 a.m.
Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> writes:
in the Electrologica machines (Dutch computers from
the late 1950s to
mid 1960s), double-length values are encoded with the sign bit
replicated in each word.
The PDP-10 double integer format also duplicates the sign bit, but is
two's complement.