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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: operator syntax, Unicode in strings Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 04:49:26 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <v36c4m$10k3v$3@dont-email.me> References: <v0s17o$2okf4$2@dont-email.me> <6124140226e28fd4afec0b435bdbeca1@www.novabbs.org> <88rk4j9irgh046o4hh8bl0pkotn4dabg0f@4ax.com> <v31dnn$3u8om$4@dont-email.me> <v32d3m$74i$1@gal.iecc.com> <v33bl6$9cst$9@dont-email.me> <lbm8sdF4njnU1@mid.individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 06:49:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3ef20057ca595167e2155ab2d3a746a0"; logging-data="1069183"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+eCxnd4d1RuJhuM+bdhvPN" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vW8KDILBITBzZ0Cjqxjf7PPWfzs= Bytes: 2027 On Tue, 28 May 2024 15:43:25 +0100, moi wrote: > On 28/05/2024 02:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 May 2024 16:41:26 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote: >> >>> I happen to have a copy of "Algol 60 Implementation" published in 1963 >>> which describes the KDF9 Algol compiler in considerable detail. They >>> considered the translation of the Algol publication language to the >>> 5-bit paper tape code their computer used so trivial that they don't >>> even describe it. >> >> Only 32 code symbols? It must have used shifts, à la Baudot code. It >> probably was Baudot code. > > It was Ferranti 5-channel paper tape code: > <http://www.findlayw.plus.com/KDF9/The%20KDF9%20Character%20Codes.pdf> That doc says it’s a 6-bit code. By the way, don’t you hate sites that block user agents like wget?