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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: *Why* do modern machines mostly have 8-bit bytes?
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Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 23:46:10 EDT
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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.

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