questions about bits and bytes

[jim bell]

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.
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>- 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.