der Mouse wrote:
By the "byte = addressing unit" definition?
It's been a while since I
had a PDP-8 (I had an -8/f but I long ago gave it to a collector much
more serious than I), but I'm fairly sure the addressing unit was the
12-bit word.
Addressing unit is WORDS... How ever text can and often was packed in 6
bit nibbles?
The real gotya on the old machines... UPPER CASE ASCII ONLY.
Ben alias woodelf