Robert Rolf <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:

> > > There will also then be DEC2BIN, HEX2BIN, and OCT2BIN. Notice
> > > that only the most severely impaired will have any use for the
> > > octal conversion functions.
>
> > What? No one programming DEC PDP11's or DataGeneral 1200's
> > anymore?
>
> Or 8080 micros?

    Or PICs.  Early PIC datasheets used octal, and as I recall,
    Microchip's PIC assembler even defaulted to octal.

    -Andy

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