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0 pointsnaniwaduni6y ago0 comments

> octal location 033

of course this predates the invention of hex, or at least the modern conventional notation for it

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kps6y ago

Pre-PDP11, DEC had machines with 12, 18, and 36 bit words. Those are all multiples of 3, so octal was more natural. (For the 16-bit PDP11, the instruction format made octal natural.)

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