7 Oct
2007
7 Oct
'07
3:57 p.m.
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 08:49:56 -0600> From:
bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> To: > Subject: Re: these RTL or what?> > Allison
wrote:> > > Does it really makes that much differnce the number of bits for a
char?> > Really, Six bits was kinda tight for work where upper or lower case>
> was used but it didn't affect calculating Pi to a 100 places.> > Wasn't
the basic chunk 9 bits for PDP10 and it happened (DEC > > software) used 6 bit char
notation as a carry over from earlier > > life with friden flexowriter and TTYs on
earlier machines?> > Floppy disk is 8 bit I/O. That made all the difference when
standard> floppy disk controlers came out. Ben.> Hi
Actually there is nothing
in the floppy disk drive that cares
about byte size or anything else. It is entirely a function of the
controller. I have a machine that has floppies and it writes 20 bit
words. The floppy is just a bit serial device and could care less
about where you choose to partition it.
Dwight
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