>What? No one programming DEC PDP11's or DataGeneral 1200's anymore? Or 8080 micros? IIRC a fair amount of code for these was done using octal because the way the register addressing is done lends itself to octal. I seem to remember a fair number of programs where listings where published in magazines like Byte were actually done as octal. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics