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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="Binary_splitting" title="Binary splitting">Binary splitting</a>.</div>
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<b>Syllabic octal</b> and <b>split octal</b> are two similar notations for 8-bit and 16-bit <a href="Octal_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Octal number">octal numbers</a>, respectively, used in some historical contexts.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Syllabic_octal">Syllabic octal</h2></div>
<p><i>Syllabic octal</i> is an 8-bit octal <a href="Number_representation" class="mw-redirect" title="Number representation">number representation</a> that was used by <a href="English_Electric" title="English Electric">English Electric</a> in conjunction with their <a href="English_Electric_KDF9" title="English Electric KDF9">KDF9</a> machine in the mid-1960s.
</p><p>Although the word '<a href="Byte" title="Byte">byte</a>' had been coined by the designers of the <a href="IBM_7030_Stretch" title="IBM 7030 Stretch">IBM 7030 Stretch</a> for a group of eight <a href="Bit" title="Bit">bits</a>, it was not yet well known, and English Electric used the word '<a href="Syllable_(computing)" title="Syllable (computing)">syllable</a>' for what is now called a byte.
</p><p><a href="Machine_code" title="Machine code">Machine code</a> programming used an unusual form of <a href="Octal" title="Octal">octal</a>, known locally as 'bastardized octal'. It represented 8 bits with three octal digits but the first digit represented only the two most-significant bits (with values 0..3), whilst the others the remaining two groups of three bits (with values 0..7) each.<sup id="cite_ref-Detmer_2014_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Detmer_2014-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A more polite colloquial name was 'silly octal', derived from the official name which was <i>syllabic octal</i><sup id="cite_ref-EE_Director_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EE_Director-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Listing_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Listing-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (also known as 'slob-octal' or 'slob' notation,<sup id="cite_ref-Beard_1997_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beard_1997-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CCS_2009_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CCS_2009-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>).
</p><p>This 8-bit notation was similar to the later 16-bit split octal notation.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Split_octal">Split octal</h2></div>
<p><i>Split octal</i> is an unusual address notation used by <a href="Heathkit" title="Heathkit">Heathkit</a>'s PAM8 and portions of <a href="HDOS" title="HDOS">HDOS</a> for the <a href="Heathkit_H8" title="Heathkit H8">Heathkit H8</a> in the late 1970s (and sometimes up to the present).<sup id="cite_ref-McManis_2016_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McManis_2016-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CDC_1964_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CDC_1964-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also used by <a href="Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> (DEC).
</p><p>Following this convention, 16-bit addresses were split into two 8-bit numbers printed separately in octal, that is base 8 on 8-bit boundaries: the first memory location was "000.000" and the memory location after "000.377" was "001.000" (rather than "000.400").
</p><p>In order to distinguish numbers in split-octal notation from ordinary 16-bit octal numbers, the two digit groups were often separated by a slash (/),<sup id="cite_ref-Ciarcia_1977_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ciarcia_1977-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> dot (.),<sup id="cite_ref-Poduska_1979_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poduska_1979-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> colon (:),<sup id="cite_ref-Miller_1981_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller_1981-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> comma (,),<sup id="cite_ref-Santore_1978_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Santore_1978-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> hyphen (-),<sup id="cite_ref-Belt_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Belt-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or hash mark (#).<sup id="cite_ref-Johnson_2019_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Johnson_2019-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Andrews_2020_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrews_2020-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Most <a href="Minicomputer" title="Minicomputer">minicomputers</a> and <a href="Microcomputer" title="Microcomputer">microcomputers</a> used either straight octal (where 377 is followed by 400) or <a href="Hexadecimal" title="Hexadecimal">hexadecimal</a>. With the introduction of the optional HA8-6 <a href="Zilog_Z80" title="Zilog Z80">Z80</a> processor replacement for the <a href="Intel_8080" title="Intel 8080">8080</a> board, the front-panel keyboard got a new set of labels and hexadecimal notation was used instead of octal.<sup id="cite_ref-Wallace_2011_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallace_2011-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Through tricky number alignment the <a href="HP-16C" title="HP-16C">HP-16C</a> and other <a href="Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a> <a href="Reverse_Polish_notation" title="Reverse Polish notation">RPN</a> calculators supporting <a href="Base_conversion" class="mw-redirect" title="Base conversion">base conversion</a> can implicitly support numbers in split octal as well.<sup id="cite_ref-Roland_2021_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roland_2021-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="IBM_SQUOZE" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM SQUOZE">IBM SQUOZE</a></li>
<li><a href="Od_(Unix)" title="Od (Unix)">od</a>&nbsp;– Unix octal dump utility</li>
<li><a href="DEC_RADIX_50" title="DEC RADIX 50">DEC RADIX 50</a></li>
<li><a href="Squawk_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Squawk code">Squawk code</a></li>
<li><a href="Segment%3Aoffset_addressing_(x86)" class="mw-redirect" title="Segment:offset addressing (x86)">Segment:offset addressing</a></li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>
<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFPeacock1998" class="citation web cs1">Peacock, Jack (1998-04-22). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/1998-April/1065.html">"Split Octal (was RE: 8080 Trainer - more info)"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231016223008/http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/1998-April/1065.html">Archived</a> from the original on 2023-10-16<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2023-10-16</span></span>.</cite></li>
<li><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://altairclone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=264#">"Giving octal a try"</a>. <i>AltairClone</i>. 2019. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231016222829/https://altairclone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=264">Archived</a> from the original on 2023-10-16<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2023-10-16</span></span>.</cite></li></ul></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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