I wrote a couple of programs for a Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600 back
in the early '70s. I recall that the smallest addressable unit was a 60 bit
word (though there were special instructions to pack and unpack some size
of character -- was it 6 bit?)
Bob
Correct, except that there
I originally thought could be a way of storing Unicode text in databases.
However, after some thinking, I decided that idea was completely bogus, so I
though to turn it into a joke for geeks. But it wasn't even amusing, so it
went in the Deleted Items folder.
However, I see that illogical ideas
On Thu, 17 May 2001 15:39:02 -0500, Peter Constable wrote:
Can anyone clarify for me how big a byte has ever been? (If you could
identify the particular hardware, that would be helpful.)
The TR440, a German brand of computer (designed and built here
at Konstanz), in use circa 1975..1990 (I
I was hoping someone with more detailed memory would mention this, but
since not, and since it is a contender for having one of the largest
minimal addressable unit (other than microcode storage):
I wrote a couple of programs for a Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600 back
in the early '70s. I
Thanks for all the interesting feedback.
Now let me ask a slightly different question: Prior to Unicode and ISO
10646, what were the smallest and largest size code units ever used for
representing character data? In the various responses, there was reference
to 6- and 9-bit character
On 05/18/2001 09:39:18 AM Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:
Well, most of the various CJK encodings clearly would have a lot more than
9
bits to them. Kind of required for any system dealing with thousands of
characters.
But do any of them encode using code units larger than 8 bits? Certainly
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Subject: Re: [OT] bits and bytes
Thanks for all the interesting feedback.
Now let me ask a slightly different question: Prior to Unicode and ISO
10646, what were the smallest and largest size code units ever used for
representing character
Now let me ask a slightly different question: Prior to Unicode and ISO
10646, what were the smallest and largest size code units ever used for
representing character data?
Any characters bigger than 9 bits smaller than 6?
Of course, Baudot was 5-bit code used widely in Teletype networks,
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But do any of them encode using code units larger than 8 bits? Certainly
if
something like GB2312 were encoded in a flat (linear?) encoding that never
used code-unit sequences, the code units would have to be larger than 9
bits. But I've only ever heard of them being
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the smallest and largest size code units ever used for representing character data?
Teletype machines commonly use a 5-bit code (Baudot, International Alphabet Nr. 2). It
has Shift-In/Shift-Out codes to switch between an alphabetic default level and a level
with
Morse code uses a one-bit scheme, if you will, or a small number of codes
(short/long sound and some 3 or 4 standard lengths of pauses) depending on
how
you look at it.
Well, either you say that Morse code has a character set of three
characters: SPACE, DOT, DASH, meaning a two-bit encoding is
I seem to recall not long ago hearing of some machine architechtures that
have used large bytes, i.e. high number of bits per byte. I think at some
point I heard mention of a 36-bit byte, but one of my colleagues questioned
that (he once worked with a 36-bit architecture, but says it was actually
Peter Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks on Thu, 17 May 2001
15:39:02 -0500 about historical byte sizes 8 bits.
I worked on, and co- managed, a DEC TOPS-20 KL-10 system for 12 years,
until its retirement in the Fall of 1990. I recall it with great
fondness, but that is another long off-topic
with.
Carl
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I seem to recall not long ago hearing of some machine architechtures that
have used
Line break is not a character. It is number thirteen, though, isn't it?
★じゅういっちゃん★
Life is assuredly better today when word sizes, other than on some
embedded processors, are now uniformly multiples of 8 bits, and
characters are numbered starting from 0.
On Thu, 17 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to recall not long ago hearing of some machine architechtures
that have used large bytes, i.e. high number of bits per byte. I
think at some point I heard mention of a 36-bit byte, but one of my
colleagues questioned that (he once worked
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Can anyone clarify for me how big a byte has ever been? (If you could
identify the particular hardware, that would be helpful.)
On the 36-bit PDP-10 architecture, a byte could be any size from 1 to 36
bits. ASCII was commonly stored in 5 7-bit bytes with an extra
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:39:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Can anyone clarify for me how big a byte has ever been? (If you could
: identify the particular hardware, that would be helpful.)
On DEC-10, with a 36-bit word, a byte was anywhere between 1 and 36
bits. They typically packed
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