bpa wrote: > Same here. > > The odd part is they didn't seem to define "byte" - because there used > to be ambiguity, many network protocol standards used the term "octet" > for a 8 bit quantity.
Indeed. On the PDP-10 (and PDP-20) a byte could be anything from 5 bits up. Memory was 36 bits wide. with 18 bit word addresses, so a byte pointer was 18 bits word address, and 18 bits of type flags, the infamous indirect bit, and byte length and offset (into the word) of the first bit - so you could even mix different byte sizes in the same word. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116079 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
