Sign magnitude, one's complement, two's complement

[Toby Thain]

On 2015-08-22 5:23 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
>
>    For my own morbid curiosity, and because it came up on another mailing
> list I'm on [1], what machines commercially avaialble were sign magnitude
> and one's complement?  Every machine I've encountered was two's complement
> (okay, IEEE 754 [2] is a sign magnitude format but I'm talking about integer
> implementations here, not floating point).  I've only found reference to one
> sign magnitude computer (the IBM 7090, release in 1959) and a few one's
> complement machines (mostly the PDP series from DEC).
>
>    Where there others?  And honestly, are there any machines that use
> anything other than two's complement today?

CDC 6000 series are significant one's-complement machines.

--Toby


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>    -spc
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> [1]	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2015-08/msg00386.html
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> [2]	AKA floating point.
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