6 Sep
2001
6 Sep
'01
1:06 p.m.
da Silva, Joe wrote:
Hi Maurice!
Just a simple question - are you sure about 9 bit bytes? The CDC machines I remember (years ago!) had 6 bit bytes, with an _optional_ two byte (12 bit) extended character set ...
It was a 36 bits word machine, split as 4x9 on tape and 6x6 for chars ! Maurice -- Maurice Lombardi Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique, Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, BP87 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex FRANCE Tel: 33 (0)4 76 51 47 51 Fax: 33 (0)4 76 51 45 44 mailto:Maurice.Lombardi@ujf-grenoble.fr