Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!dual!unisoft!greywolf From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf @ ext 165) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits) Message-ID: <463@unisoft.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 12:37:05 EDT Article-I.D.: unisoft.463 Posted: Wed Jul 22 12:37:05 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 06:09:23 EDT References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <857@bsu-cs.UUCP> <6144@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf @ ext 165) Organization: UniSoft Systems; Berkeley, CA Lines: 28 In article <6144@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) writes: >In article <857@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >>A byte is therefore exactly 8 bits. No more and no less. Opinions to >>the contrary belong in the 1960s. Let them lie there and die there. > >And people who believe that 8 bits is sufficiently to encode a >character are either naive or stupid. And people who believe that there is a nice, neat way to implement an alter- nate solution throughout the computer industry are foolish, buttheaded and/or not very capable of mental throughput. [ or they own a Cray, where everything is a double (64 bits) anyway...] What is the problem here? I see nothing wrong eight bits for a character. Can you come up with anything better? What's the matter? Are escape sequences for special characters too much for you to handle? Gimme a break. Disgusted that this discussion is even *happening*, Roan Anderson ...sun! \ ...ucbvax!>unisoft! \ ...dual! / \ >greywolf ..sun!island!unicom! / ..ucbvax!well!unicom!/