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Article #73883Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
From: Vincent Manis
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1991 00:36
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1991 00:36
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In article <1991Jul18.191212.20311@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >... >problem of having different byte-sex machines talking to each other. She >... One of the words in the above article caught my eye. (No, it wasn't `machines'). I seem to remember that the UCSD p-system, circa 1978, had a standardized data format on disk, with procedures which would map to and from that standardized data format. Those procedures were nops on machines which used the standardized format. The reason this comes to mind is the phrase `byte-sex', which I first saw in the UCSD manual of the time. My p-system manuals have long since been turned into something organic at the recycler, so I leave it for someone else to confirm this vague memory. -- \ Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca> "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9a4c815047ed049b X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-18 21:47:56 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!brazeau.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication Message-ID: <1991Jul19.003624.29045@cs.ubc.ca> Date: 19 Jul 91 00:36:24 GMT References: <709@silence.princeton.nj.us> <1738@opus.NMSU.Edu> <1991Jul18.191212.20311@kithrup.COM> Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology Lines: 23