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In Reply to this Note From: <Alton Harkcom>
>   I never understood what the confusion was though. Are there systems
>which uses 16 bits/byte? And whats the story with IBM? Could the original
>poster elaborate a bit (by email if my ignorance is showing :-)

I knew of a 12-bit computer that had 6-bit bytes.  It used a subset of
the ascii character set.  Another 12-bit computer (the PDP-8) packed
three octets into two 12-bit words.  It was very inefficient to work
on strings, but you can see the advantage of using the full ascii
character set.  -David-

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