3 May
2007
3 May
'07
06:31
Let us not forget the 7bit byte on the DEC PDP10 (5 in a word with 1 bit extra), or the 9bit octet on Multics. When I first came across the term byte it referred to the size of a character, while our machine at the time had 6bit characters. ==John ffitch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org