Standardization questions

[Larry Wall]

In article <12902 at sri-arpa.UUCP> Paul Schauble writes:
>     The most primative linker I can immediately think of coded the
>names into a 32 bit word, using 6 characters from an alphabet of 40.
>(Isn;t this what the PDP11 does, rather than radix 50??)

The beloved RAD50 has an alphabet of 40 characters.  Think octal.

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall