Re: "Open System" Redefined in OSI Specification

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From: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 14:29

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In article <HARKCOM.90Nov21080149@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp> harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:
   Are there systems which uses 16 bits/byte?

PDP-10s and perhaps PDP-6s could handle arbitrary byte sizes, as small
as one bit and as big as their word size, 36 (and perhaps multiword
bytes as well - it's been a while).  PDP-10s were the engines inside
DECsystem-10s and DECsystem-20s.

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Subject: Re: "Open System" Redefined in OSI Specification
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