Byte sizes (was Re: 2.8M 3.5' floppy (was: three and a quarter loppy?)

[Bjørn]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:19:39 +0100, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com>  
wrote:

>
> Huh?  Knuth's "Fundamental Algorithms" came out well after the PDP-10
> (never mind the earlier PDP-6, which is the same architecture).

Hm - yes, I remember he got sidetracked by typesetting problems.
It took a very long time before it hit the bookstores. I think we were  
writing MIX-simulators based on mimeographed excerpts, I did not get the  
book until long after I left university.

And I suddenly realized I had been thinking of the DECsystem 10, not the  
PDP-10. This cold is giving me bitrot!

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Bjørn