I never said a word about 6 bits ... I grumble about
11111111 base 0 bits.
There is a lot of good reasions why we have 8 bits mostly because 4 bits
work
nice for MSI like alu's and shift registers.
I would think the other way around. MSI is mostly 4 bit multiples because
the 8 bit byte is popular. 3 (or sometimes 5) bit devices are only used
when there is no other choice.
William Donzelli
aw288 at
osfn.org