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   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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