Before I get flamed over the use of FORTRAN II as opposed to Fortran II please bear in mind that the 1401 (and PDP8-I/L) alphanumeric character set with 6 bits. IOW no lower case. The PDP8 series was a 12 bit CPU and could represent two characters per word or three 8...
Before I get flamed over the use of FORTRAN II as opposed to Fortran II please bear in mind that the 1401 (and PDP8-I/L) alphanumeric character set with 6 bits. IOW no lower case. The PDP8 series was a 12 bit CPU and could represent two characters per word or three 8-bit charac...