C compilers for RSTS/E?

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Fri Oct 22 16:50:00 2004

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:40:55PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> Interesting -- DOS format magtape. 6.3 filenames...

That has more to do with the use of RADIX-50 to store filenames on PDP-11
disks than anything that came out of Redmond (RAD-50 stores 3 uppercase
chars in 16 bits, so it takes three words to store names as 6.3)

-ethan

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