17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 09:50 AM 4/11/96 -0400, Richard Martin wrote:
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On Apr 10, 6:57pm, jim bell wrote:
At 06:29 PM 4/10/96 -0700, Simon Spero wrote:
No, bytes are no always 8 bits - some machines use(d) 9-bit bytes. I notice you gave no examples. Why is that? Perhaps he thought that most people who were interested could go look it up themselves.
- From a really quick web search, we find that the SGI Impact jams 9-bit bytes [that's what it says] across the Rambus internally. I'm not sure if the memory itself is 9-bit.
Are you sure they're not referring to 8 bits of data and a parity bit? In any case, please give the address to the list so that it can be checked out.