Darren New wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Well, only if you told it to. You had binary numbers, bcd numbers, 
>> packed bcd numbers, and "display" numbers, which is what you're 
>> talking about.
> 
> http://www.cs.niu.edu/~abyrnes/csci465/notes/465num.htm
> For example.
> 
> 

Yep.  IIRC, the S/36 defaulted to DISPLAY, and the S/38 defaulted to 
COMP--the only difference was whether or not you *had* to use the USAGE 
clause.  I also seem to recall that the S/36 (but not, I think, the 
S/38) also had a PIC 1 type for getting at the individual bits...

OK, I'm boring myself now.  ;)

--Sherry Shaw


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