Subject: Re: Q: How to write binary data to a file?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 07:22:32 -0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <unlulo2ktjjnba@corp.supernews.com>
Espen Vestre  <espen@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net> wrote:
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| Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com> writes:
| > I don't know too many languages that actually define the term "byte"...
| 
| I'm starting to think that the the most valuable CS education I ever got
| was my exposure to the university DEC-10 computer. Which used several
| byte sizes...
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Yeah, me too. I've told the story several (too many?) times:

    <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?q=rpw3+focal+sortj+macros&hl=en&
         lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=938v11%24m89cq%241%40fido.engr.sgi.com&rnum=2>
    <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?q=rpw3+focal+sortj+macros&hl=en&
	 lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=7meuue%2498dks%40fido.engr.sgi.com&rnum=1>
    <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?q=rpw3+bit+strips&hl=en&lr=&
	 ie=UTF-8&selm=3232%40fortune.UUCP&rnum=1>

so I won't repeat it here, but the byte pointer hardware on the PDP-10
got used for a *lot* more stuff than just accessing character strings...


-Rob

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