python 3.3 repr

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
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>>> became popular.
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>> Really? you cried and laughed over 7 vs. 8 bits?  That's lovely (?).
>> ;).  That eighth bit sure was less confusing than codepoint
>> translations
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> no we had 6 bits in 60 bit words as I recall; extracting the nth character
> involved division by 6; smart people did tricks with inverted
> multiplications etc etc  :(
> --

Cool, someone here is older than me!  I came in with the 8080, and I
remember split octal, but sixes are something I missed out on.
> Robin Becker



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