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From: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Size of "Byte"
Message-ID: <3772@felix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 19:18:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: felix.3772
Posted: Thu Jul 23 19:18:44 1987
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In article <6143@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>In article <315@nsta.UUCP> amos%nsta@nsc.com (Amos Shapir) writes:
>>... The term was formed by a shortened pronounciation of the words 'by eight'...
>
>I doubt that very much!


Me too.  Particularly since my PDP-8 has two bytes per word.
And the word on the PDP-8 is 12 bits long.
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