Try writing a TCP/IP stack, it riddled with 1's complement arithmetic. It just
is.

Wil Baden wrote:

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> Wil Baden Costa Mesa, California
> [In the Real World], chars have 8 bits. They just do. All integral
> arithmetic is done in twos-complement binary. It just is. Several
> simple "get real" assumptions like these make our work possible.
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Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 03:36:04 PDT