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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
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Summary: Cray 2 addressing
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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.

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Bron Nelson     {ihnp4, lll-lcc}!ohlone!nelson
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