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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !!
Date: 1997/07/08
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Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.868049804@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>iRichard O'Keefe said
>
><<Note that 5 ASCII characters per word was a software convention<<
>
>I think that is wrong, there were hardware instructions on the PDP10 that
>used this format, I am pretty sure of this, but it is a while ago ...

I'm pretty sure you're wrong.  As far as I recall, tghe byte instructions
on the PDP-10 took a "byte descriptor" that also gave the size of the 
byte.