From: "David G. Conroy" Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: FDV Organization: Used only for posts to newsgroups X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 7 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.120.161.16 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1017546335 ST000 66.120.161.16 (Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:45:35 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:45:35 EST X-UserInfo1: Q[OKRR_D[ZVUBFH[OZK@_TDAYZOZ@GXOXZYT]UEK@YUDUWYAKVUOPCW[ML\JXUCKVFDYZKBMSFX^OMSAFNTINTDDMVW[X\THOPXZRVOCJTUTPC\_JSBVX\KAOTBAJBVMZTYAKMNLDI_MFDSSOLXINH__FS^\WQGHGI^C@E[A_CF\AQLDQ\BTMPLDFNVUQ_VM Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 03:45:35 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!skynet.be!skynet.be!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!207.115.63.138!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.sys.pdp10:10820 Is the quirky way FDV works when the quotient is negative (2's complement if remainder is 0, and 1's complement otherwise) on the KS and KL a deliberate act or an artifact. And if it's a deliberate act, why was it done (and "Mary Payne said so" is a fine answer :-)) dgc