On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 13:09:45 Joseph B. Reid wrote: ... >I suspect that Marcus confuses digit length and word length. A decimal >digit requires 4 binary digits or bits. Word length can be anything from 8 >bits in the IBM 1408 and 1410 up to 64 bits in the last Control Data >computer. The Control Data 6600 had a 60-bit word. >... As a matter of clarification, I didn't want to use programmer's jargon here as I don't know how many here would be used to computer technology technical terms. But, evidently, what I meant was related to the concept of word length. Not with regards to defining what a byte is, which has already been established as 8 bits. I couldn't care less about that aspect. This is something we all learn in our basic year at school of any computer-related degree program. In the end though you won't even see us, professionals, make use of such things anymore. It's all about # of bits that matters in the end, and how hardware are built around that amount.
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