On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:34 +
Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote:
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 04:12 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Those of us who've used older mainframes (such as the PDP-10) remember
byte being a synonym for bit field and a byte could be any number of
bits,
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 14:36 +0100, Bob Marcan wrote:
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:34 +
Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote:
PDP being a 'main franme'? Baby mainframe perhaps when compared to
Honeywell's (later Bull's) Level 66? Level 66 had 36 bit words which
could be used as 6
--On Saturday, February 26, 2011 9:04 PM + Always Learning
cen...@g7.u22.net wrote:
Are you sure 'octets' is correct?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Octet_%28computing%29
Those of us who've used older mainframes (such as the PDP-10) remember
byte being a synonym for bit
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 04:12 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Those of us who've used older mainframes (such as the PDP-10) remember
byte being a synonym for bit field and a byte could be any number of
bits, typically from 1 to 36 (on a 36-bit-wide machine). 7-bit and 9-bit
bytes were quite
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