Subject: Re: Corman Lisp and binary files
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:49:22 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <V-KdnSCDTNJf5aHZRVn-vw@speakeasy.net>
Pascal Bourguignon  <usenet@informatimago.com> wrote:
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| "josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com" <josephoswald@gmail.com> writes:
| > Perhaps. But someday, we might hope, Windows and UNIX are going to be
| > long-forgotten "specialty" platforms, but Lisp will still be around.
| > Text/binary interchange might yet converge to more robust standards.
| >
| > On the other hand, 36-bit bytes and SIXBIT are probably never coming
| > back, outside of toy emulators for recreational use.
| 
| Perhaps we'll have 84-bit words, 21-bit bytes some day?
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The PDP-10 is dead!  Long live the PDP-10!  LDB & DPB forever!!!


-Rob

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