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

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From: Bernie Cosell
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 16:38

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barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

}In article <HARKCOM.90Nov21080149@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp> harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:
}>   I never understood what the confusion was though. Are there systems
}>which uses 16 bits/byte?

}A byte is generally a contiguous group of bits that may be operated on as a
}unit.

BBN manufactures a processor that has twenty-bit words divided into two
ten-bit bytes.   The box runs Unix, and it is quite an art writing a C
program that is portable between the vanilla eight-bit world and this
odd beasty.

  /Bernie\

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