[J3] STORAGE_SIZE

[Malcolm Cohen]

I don’t think those machines are coming back, so it’s hard to feel too worried about this kind of thing...

 

And they are not decimal machines for storage. They are binary, with (if I read the doc correctly) eight bits per location, though one of those bits is parity. STORAGE_SIZE should return the number of bits of storage...

 

I’m not seeing a problem here, but maybe I’m not looking hard enough.

 

Cheers,

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..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.

 

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The intrinsic function
STORAGE_SIZE returns the
size of an array element in
bits. Machines such as the
IBM 1401 and the IBM 1620
stored data as decimal
digits instead of bits. Should
we say that STORAGE_SIZE
is processor dependent on
such machines?

Robert Corbett



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