Bytesize (was: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format))

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Mon Apr 22 08:31:18 2002

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Hans Franke wrote:

> > 9bits was the byte size for the PDP-10, I believe IBM360 and CDC6600
>
> Na, the /360 was a plain 8 Bit/Byte machine, but I think you're right
> about the CDC. AFAIR there was a Bull machine using 9 Bit Bytes, and
> 18 Bit integers.

I don't know about the /360, but the the /370 and /390 used 8-bit bytes,
32-bit words, and 31-bit (!) addressing.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 08:31:18 BST