Inane ... even for NANOG.

Thu Mar 15 19:43:58 UTC 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank at att.net.il]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:35 AM
> To: Roeland Meyer
> Cc: 'Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu'
> Subject: Re: Inane ... even for NANOG.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:57 AM
> > 
> > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:22:52 PST, Roeland Meyer
> > > <rmeyer at mhsc.com>said:
> > > > > 16.1.16.1; I don't
> > > > > Sorry, it was the hex representation, of course.
> > >
> > > > HEX:=="313631313631"
> > >
> > > I think the intended value was 0x10011001
> > 
> > And the signifigance of this bit pattern is ...?
> > 
> > [from too many decades doing assembly level communications 
> drivers to handle
> > both ASCII/EIA and EBCDIC. Nothing there is either special 
> or amusing,
> > anymore. Not for decades.]
> > 
> > so ... who is Fifi?
> 
> 15 in hex is x'0f'.  16 is x'1f'.  15.1.15.1 would be fifi.  
> 16.1.16.1 is
> something else.

15 = 0x0f
16 = 0x10
011001011001

it still makes no sense.