[TUHS] MicroVAX architecture (was: Linux is on-topic)

[John Cowan]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 4:43 PM Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com>
wrote:

And the PL/I and COBOL
> compilers were implementing packed decimal using decimal shadowing.
>

What is decimal shadowing?  I see a few references to the term on line, but
no explanations.  Thanks.



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