questions about bits and bytes
Sten Drescher
stend at grendel.texas.net
Fri Apr 12 08:46:48 PDT 1996
>>>>> jim bell writes:
jb> 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.
jb> I notice you gave no examples. Why is that?
As I recall, the Honeywell H6000 used 6-bit bytes and 36-bit
(6 byte) words.
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