At 02:51 PM 4/12/96 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
At 11:34 AM 4/12/96 -0500, Doug Hughes wrote:
On Apr 12 at 8:07 jim bell wrote:
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.
Come on, give it up already and admit you were wrong. At least 8 different people have cited examples of machines that supported non 8bit bytes. Your pride is getting the best of you.
Jim is unwilling to admit his errors, even in things he has little or no training in. (I remember him claiming at one point that he was not a programmer or did any coding for that matter. Why he continues to persist in such things I will not speculate on...)
What I meant was the most honest answer I could give: I am not a professional programmer. I have programmed, in APL, Fortran, Algol, PL/1, Pascal, and I can read BASIC's well enough, but not recently.