IBM 360 turns 40 today

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From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Apr 7 20:46:36 2004

> You missed the point, 40 is base 10, 32 is base 2.

Only _true_believers_ know that most S/360 operations involving numbers
were in packed decimal format*, so 40 is correct.

*because of the financial industry.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 20:46:36 BST

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