In <p06240401ceca853cbacd@[192.168.2.101]>, on 12/08/2013
at 03:27 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[email protected]> said:
>Data in the computer is stored in 8-bit long bytes.
Data in a computer are stored in units dictated by the architecture.
For the S/360 it's 8-bit[1] bytes. I've seen word sizes of 12, 18, 24,
30, 36, 60 and 64 bits, words size of 10 decimal digits[2] and
character size of 6 bits, and that leaves out the really old stuff.
Silly wabbit, trits are for kids.
[1] In CDC-land the default bytes size was 12.
[2] With either a 2-state sign or a 3-state sign.
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