From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Rules for Representation of Subtypes
Date: 1996/09/30
Date: 1996-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DyKCrM.Au@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52oi3v$din@mill.gdls.com
In article <52oi3v$din@mill.gdls.com>, Art Schwarz <schwarza@gdls.com> wrote:
> PDP-10 7 bits (and others?)
On the PDP-10, a byte could be any size from 1 to 36 bits (or 0 to 35,
or something like that). But a storage unit was 36 bits. Some people,
these days, mean "addressable storage unit" when they say "byte", but it
used to mean "a part of a word" (maybe addressable or maybe not). And
of course it's come to mean "8 bits" to many. Probably most programmers
in their twenties think that God made the byte 8 bits wide. ;-)
- Bob
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1996-09-28 0:00 Rules for Representation of Subtypes Robert Dewar
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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1996-10-10 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-02 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-22 0:00 Matthew Heaney
1996-09-23 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1996-09-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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