Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!ames!lll-tis!ohlone!nelson From: nelson@ohlone.UUCP (Bron Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch Subject: Re: *Why* do modern machines mostly have 8-bit bytes? Message-ID: <341@ohlone.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 15:53:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ohlone.341 Posted: Thu Jul 23 15:53:17 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:30:55 EDT References: <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <8315@utzoo.UUCP> <624@ima.ISC.COM> Organization: Cray Research Inc., Livermore, CA Lines: 8 Summary: Cray 2 addressing Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:3394 comp.arch:1675 In article <624@ima.ISC.COM>, johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine) writes: > Even Seymour Cray has byte addressing in the Cray 2, doesn't he? No. ----------------------- Bron Nelson {ihnp4, lll-lcc}!ohlone!nelson Not the opinions of Cray Research