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From: mark@rtech.UUCP (Mark Wittenberg)
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Subject: Re: *Why* do modern machines mostly have 8-bit bytes?
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 21:35:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 21:35:27 1987
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From article <2807@phri.UUCP>, by roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith):
> 
> 	First, why did older machines have all sorts of strange word
> lengths -- 12, 36, and 60 being sizes that I know of, but I'm sure there
> were others.
> 
> Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
> 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
>

Anybody remember the Bendix G-15 (hi Doug) with 29-bit words?
-- 
Mark Wittenberg
Relational Technology, Inc.
Alameda, CA
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