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by jbgreer 1134 days ago
As someone who programmed assembly on a one's complement machine* 40 years ago, this discussion is interesting, from both the "haven't we learned anything" and the "makes sense to me" camps.

More interesting to me is how they are introducing this change, both in the previous OTP and next, and how they will arm people with tools to hopefully identify and understand the impact. I wonder how many folks will actually be impacted?

* Sperry Univac 1100/62