Re: Byte != 8 bits (was Re: "Open System" Redefined in OSI Specification)

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From: Kevin D. Quitt
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 1990 20:20

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In article <1990Nov21.091922.26992@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>DEC PDP-10 and PDP-20 systems have 36 bit words, which I think are
>typically divided into five 7-bit bytes (in some file formats the leftover
>bit is used as a control flag).

    Yeah, it was used to denote that the characters in the word were a
source-code line-number.  Various editors took advantage of it.


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