Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

Raymond Wiker rwiker at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 05:48:35 CDT 2016


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 08:34:00PM +1300, Mike Ross wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 03:54:40PM +1300, Mike Ross wrote:
> > >> they were strictly 31-bit only.
> > >
> > > Dang, I suspected they were hobbled, but that's painful.
>
> I guess I didn't highlight the joke.  Thirty-*one* bits?
>


Yeah, well... maybe not entirely impossible; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ND-500#ND-505


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