-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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. richard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMW0OIR1gtCYLvIJ1AQHvDQP/T5Xip82nGUzOO7diwoHw+BIiOXlpaEc2 oBuZ1VgMetcnr1qjANL8L5mvrMXUTJmZrDYwJ4VGSyErBX6Mm0Rz4OrMZy4mDvRt BzEI52MXfVzItZG95AcyiSXVcjVqCn1Hbo/MO3mzrVpvROy3ibsslDks30QFDC8j asImraxVlTE= =bAQH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Richard Martin [not speaking for a|w] rmartin@aw.sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/rmartin_aw/ Alias|Wavefront - Toronto Office [Co-op Software Developer, Games Team]