y2k stuff

From: Miles O'Neal <meo_at_netads.com>
Date: Tue Jan 12 15:30:49 1999

Hans Franke said...
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|> > I love your comments (and I guess you had also some contact with
|> > these 9 Bit Byte Bull Mini computers :)

I think it was Hughes that made 18 bit and 36 bit computers, too.

9 bit byte machines weren't exactly common in the 60s and 70s,
but they weren't exactly rare, either.

|6 Bit ? thats new - I never have seen a 6 Bit byte computer - I
|know 6 Bit only from some serial line encodings.

The CDC Cybers (at least the 60 and 70 series systems) used
6 bit bytes, and 60 bit words. So one word held 10 characters.
Upper case only, of course, but they did something (I forget
what) to extend that (I forget what) to include lower case,
and pretty much the whole ASCII character set.

I'll have to scrounge up the old NOS guide...

-Miles
Received on Tue Jan 12 1999 - 15:30:49 GMT