On 18/02/21 3:38 am, MRAB wrote:
So a "byte" is part of a word (a word contains multiple characters).
In the Burroughs B6900 architecture, programs consisted of 48-bit words broken up into 8-bit opcodes called "syllables". -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/PCD2BLQSUX2AQY43PFFCEQTOILFLSYX4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
