Don't forget that the bytes on these machines are 6 bits.

I got to play with a couple of these machines back in high school in the
late 70's. I was in the explorer post at Tektronix and they had (I
think) a Cyber 73 & 175 in Building 50. In college (Oregon state) I had
to do some assembler work on one, interesting instruction set. My
favorite weird thing was that a jump if zero with a register that was
hardwired zero was quicker then a straight jump.

-Lane

-----Original Message-----
 Wayne Boyer wrote:

>Our language for this was SNOBOL.  Any SNOBOL fans
>out there?  One very powerful string handling language!
>
>Amazing what you can do via punch cards and 64kb.  But then again the
CDC
was
>truely a 'big' computer!

Yes, I used SNOBOL in college.  By the way, the CDC machine (which one?)
you
used probably had more than 64KB of memory.  CDC always expressed their
memory in words, which on the 6600 and related machines was 60 bits.  So
64k
words = 480k bytes.

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