Quoting Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3@hotpop.com>:
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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org