[TUHS] .globl directive -- is this a 35-bit constant?

[Tom Lyon]

But they had RADIX 50, which would've allowed global.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:44 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> ACPI has 4-byte identifiers (guess why!), but I just wondered, writing
> some assembly:
> is it globl, not global, or glbl, because globl would be a one-word
> constant on the PDP-10 (5 7-bit bytes)?
>
> Not entirely off track, netbsd at some point (still does?) ran on the
> PDP-10.
>
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