[comp.arch] Radix-50 and namei

fritz@polecat.caltech.edu (Fritz "3 points" Nordby) (07/28/87)

In article <1502@ihdev.ATT.COM> pdg@ihdev.UUCP (Joe Isuzu) writes:
>Here is the table:
[deleted table giving one radix-50 to ascii equivalence]

Well, that's one of 'em.  Actually there were at least two
Radix-50 character sets promugated by DEC.  I don't have
the tables here in front of me, but the tables for the pdp-11
and DECsystem-10 versions of Radix-50 were distinctly different
(and, of course, incompatible).

>Now, don't we all wish namei() was *that* easy?

Just as a side note: namei() hasn't changed its name or its
information passing mechanism since 1969.  Yup, that's right:
u.u_base, u.u_count, etc. date from pdp-7 days.  Except then
they didn't have the extra "u_" in their names.  Of course,
back then there weren't pathnames as we know them now.

		Fritz Nordby.	fritz@vlsi.caltech.edu	cit-vax!fritz
		``I get off on rocks.''