Re: Two Thousand and Eight

Snidely <Snidely.too@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On May 15, 5:07 pm, ebenZERO...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Hactar) wrote:
>> In article <693nmjF2urnj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Greg Goss  <go...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > I've always wondered at the leading 0 used for this context by
>> > C-speakers.  Why can't you go directly into the x?
>>
>> Probably comes from the octal convention (binary too, I think) of
>> having a number start with 0 to indicate it isn't negative.
>
>You get partial credit, but Mark gets full credit.
>
>Greg:  ISTR that PL/M (an Intel development language that was kinda a
>distant relative of PL/1) use 0999FH, and Intel assembler did , too.

I used PL/M.  It was a pretty complete implementation of all the parts
of PL/I that I actually used.  I don't think I actually did any hex
work on that application, though.  I probably think of it from the Z80
(related to Intel) assembly that crept into computer magazines circa
1980. 
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Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27