On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:07, James Knott wrote: > Örn Hansen wrote: > > I think a byte is always 2^8, no matter what. > > Frayed knot! There were systems that used 6 bit bytes and probably > other sizes too.
10 bits per byte on some BBN machines, e.g. The 36-bit words on Univacs made them nine bits-per-byte, though they were not really byte-addressable, at least not back in the 80s. I don't know if they're still in use and if so whether they've been given byte addressability. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
