Item Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Burroughs (was: HP3000 in the news (sort of))
John Burke writes:

> You left out Control Data. I spent many, many hours on a 6600. BTW, a
> byte was 6 bits ;-)

...which made for one heck of a surprise when FORTRAN's Hollerith format
(which did NOT support quoting) required a count of TWO for each lower-case
character (e.g., 7HThis). :/

--Glenn

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