On 31 Oct 2007 10:40:11 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
>> What reminded you of that, do you remember BCD?
>
> Has it ever been used anywhere since the 60's or something?

Yes, NES games used it often in particular for most of the numeral
information shown to players (such as the score). Though even more
often, they encoded each decimal digit in a single byte.

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Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/

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