off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8

[Jeffrey S. Worley]

On Sun, 2019-01-06 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
> Re: off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8

Nothing has changed as regards the number of bits in a byte, a nybble
is 4 bits, 8 to the byte, and x to the word - this last varies widely
depending on architecture.

Still, in Spirit, on an octal processor a whole number is a six bit
'byte', so the term is appropriate, especially to avoid confusion with
the word size of two six bit 'bytes'.

Fun.

Jeff