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Re:The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found by ajross on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:42PM (#18144323)
A PDP-11/45 or 11/70 would have much more memory, but being a 16 bit machine would still have been unable to handle this file in a conventional editor. Honestly I don't know if there were paging editors available for common environments. Certainly nothing on Unix would have worked.

Per the link, the file was editted and built on a PDP-10 running ITS, which was a 36 bit machine with an 18 bit address space.

Interestingly, almost everything else I've seen from ITS uses the 6 bit upper-case-only encoding. This is pretty clearly ASCII.

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Re:The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found by larsbrinkhoff on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:55PM (#18145636)
ITS text files use 7-bit ASCII. Five characters packed per word. Some things like file names use a 6-bit ASCII subset (the range 32-95).

What have you seen from ITS?

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