Re: Common operational misconceptions

[Robert Bonomi <bonomi () mail r-bonomi com>]

> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com () nanog org  Fri Feb 17 13:11:28 2012
> To: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
> Subject: Re: Common operational misconceptions
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:04:45 -0500
> Cc: "nanog () nanog org" <nanog () nanog org>
>
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:49:13 PST, Owen DeLong said:
> > Now, come on... If you're in the 40-50 range, you should have put octal
> > before hex. :p
>
> IBM S/360 definitely preferred hex.  And EBCDIC.

And the  _real_ number crunchers used ones-complement arithmetic.  Which led to
to mahines that couldn't add -- they did addition by 'complement and subtract'.