XPost: comp.lang.c++
From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com

On 01.11.2025 19:36, Bill Davy wrote:
>
> Never understood PDP11 using octal.

You can represent binary information in a compact form with decimal
digits (and without the discontinuity when introducing alpha digits
for hexadecimal representation).

> 16 bits / 3?  Old habits die hard.

Octal had also been used on other systems, like various mainframes
back these days. (I recall to have got a thick stack of paper with
an octal memory dump when I exceeded my 10 page print output quota
limit by one single page.)

Janis

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