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From: g_ahrendt@vaxa.uwa.oz (Gunter Ahrendt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: 6/8 bits
Message-ID: <1407.257709c4@vaxa.uwa.oz>
Date: 1 Dec 89 15:31:16 GMT
Organization: University of Western Australia
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>Should we sell our MIPS and replace it with a 1960's CDC mainframe?
>
>I have always wondered why ANY system would go to all the trouble
>of throwing away half of the possible characters in a byte.
>Seems stupid.
>
>Doug McDonald

Whats stupid about cutting down on excessive bits when you are constructing a 
scientific mainframe where you do not need 2 cases of letters, you speed up i/o 
by 25%, this does not increase, but reduces the amount of problems in a new 
system, as it simplifies a number of aspects. Considering that the CDC Gurus 
have quite a bit more brains than you seem to, your the one who seems stupid 
not to realize this.