Peter,
It was about as popular as base 3 computer logic. Base 3 logic was supposed
to have 0, +, and - states. Tri-stated or-ing was a much cheaper
alternative with binary logic (copper wire tying the gates together) and
there was no way to get core memory to work with it.
If it had worked we would probably have 9 bit bytes and 512 character code
pages. We probably still be working with octal.
Carl
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:50 PM
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Subject: RE: ISO vs Unicode UTF-8 (was RE: UTF-8 signature in web and
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On 05/25/2001 12:21:13 PM Carl W. Brown wrote:
>Peter,
>
>There was another abomination proposed.
I was choosing not to mention the abominable.
- Peter
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