7 Oct
2007
7 Oct
'07
3:49 p.m.
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.