28 Jul
2006
28 Jul
'06
6:14 p.m.
On Thursday 27 July 2006 07:08 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Now, back then, it was even more confusing. The
"K" that IBM was talking
about on its S/360 machines was 8-bit bytes; the CDC was talking about
60-bit words.
I just bumped into that one in an email conversation with somebody, who said
that an LSI-11 would only handle 56K of ram. And my recollection (?) is that
this referred to 56K _words_ as opposed to bytes.
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