6 Jan
2019
6 Jan
'19
10:48 a.m.
On Sun, 2019-01-06 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Re: off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian
pdp8
Nothing has changed as regards the number of bits in a byte, a nybble
is 4 bits, 8 to the byte, and x to the word - this last varies widely
depending on architecture.
Still, in Spirit, on an octal processor a whole number is a six bit
'byte', so the term is appropriate, especially to avoid confusion with
the word size of two six bit 'bytes'.
Fun.
Jeff