Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch Subject: Re: *Why* do modern machines mostly have 8-bit bytes? Message-ID: <6171@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 23:46:10 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6171 Posted: Fri Jul 24 23:46:10 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 18:11:14 EDT References: <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <8315@utzoo.UUCP> <2807@phri.UUCP> <3766@felix.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 4 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:3427 comp.arch:1692 In article <3766@felix.UUCP> martin@felix.UUCP (Martin McKendry) writes: >... it was set to 48 because ... and they wanted a power-of-2 wordsize. ??