bit-widths, was Re: HP Laserjet ..again....

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Sep 22 20:30:09 2004

> There are plenty of electronic numbering systems; things you'd think are
> obvious, like Binary Coded Decimal bits weighted 8, 4, 2, 1, are not
> obvious, there were/are a lot of other schemes.
>
> I'm sure actual old timers could fill in a lot here.

Well, I was born before 7 April 1964, but I do know that some of the other
schemes were used in telemetry because they were 2 of 5 - sort of like
built-in stupid parity.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 20:30:09 BST