Quoting Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. > > Doubly frayed knot... > > > Those aren't bytes, those are words. > > Wordsize may vary, but bytes are 8 bits. > and nybbles are 4 bits. >
Bytes were 6, or 8, or possibly others. A byte was a character, 6 bits for BCD, 8 bits for EBCDIC and ASCII. I know, I was there. Now, 6 bit words, I never saw any of them. IIRC, 12 bit words was the smallest I ever saw. Jeffrey Registered Old Fart/Greybeard Programming since before there were ICs (ie. 1967) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
