Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 00:48:12 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990916002348.89656B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <199909160206.UAA17542@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909151928.VAA26499@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Oliver Fromme writes: > : It only works on two's-complement machines, though, but I'm not > : aware of any FreeBSD port to an architecture that doesn't use > : two's-complement numbers... > > I'm not aware of any one's-complement machine that was manufacture > after about 1980... Not even NetBSD has any one's-complement machines > that it supports :-) Aren't the the Bull GCOS 7 machines ones complement? Or the Unisys 1100/2200 36 bit machines? I do know that some CDC 6600 clones were put together in the '80s, and they would have been ones complement. Software is expensive, building machines out of FPGAs isn't... Negative zero isn't dead yet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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