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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Rules for Representation of Subtypes
Date: 1996/09/30
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Date: 1996-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
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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