Re: What is wrong with BitArray.CopyTo()?

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From: Cor (non_at_non.com)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:50:14 +0100

Hi Oz,

I am a long time out of that, but was it not that the representing of a
decimal value is done different in mainframes than in a microprocessor.

I have worked with Burroughs computers, they used 4 bits for a digit.

But I have also worked with IBM mainframes which has more formats for
representing a value as far as I remember me

(That Burroughs I am sure of because that was greath, there was a processor
which internaly converted digits to decimals so you where alway working with
decimals, while it also had hardware instructions with 3 adresses so you had
instructions multiply a, b, giving c).

Cor

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