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Subject: Re: 48-bit computers
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Date: 11 Mar 91 02:08:55 GMT
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In article <7572@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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>At the time of all these 48-bit computers, a byte was normally 6 bits.

Also 48 is a nice number for packing all kinds of bytes and nibbles into,
since it has so many divisors.  I spoze that's less important now that
the price of memory has gone down so much compared to 1964.