The Importance of Terminology's Quality

[Roedy Green]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:28:33 -0700,
jaycx2.3.calrobert at spamgourmet.com.remove (Robert Maas,
http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>Note: On IBM 1620, instructions and forward-sweeping data records
>were addressed by their *first* digit, whereas arithmetic fields
>were addressed by their *last* digit, the low-order position, to
>support natural add-and-carry operations. Storage was decimal
>digits, with two extra bits, flag to indicate negative value (if in
>low-order position) or high-order-end (if in any other position),
>and parity.

What a memory you have to recall the precise details of work you did
45 odd years ago.
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