[TUHS] [COFF] SOSP 1973 [was Multics<->Unix Re: Re: History of cal(1)?

[Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS]

Phillip Harbison wrote:
> UNIVAC 1100 says hi.
> - 36-bit general purpose A(ccumulator) registers.
> - 36-bit and 72-bit floating point
> - indeX registers split into 18-bit address (because who would ever
>   need to address more than 256K words?) and 18-bit auto-increment
> - 6-bit characters (Fieldata). ASCII support added later with 9-bit
>   characters (not sure how they used thew extra bit)
> - octal preferred here ;)

And for yet more fun, one's complement.  After having worked on a PDP-10
backend for GCC, I looked into this one.  But it never went anywhere.