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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: *Why* do modern machines mostly have 8-bit bytes
Message-ID: <986@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 12:59:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 16 12:59:15 1987
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1332@killer.UUCP> molly@killer.UUCP (Molly Fredericks) writes:
|DEC-System 10's and 20's actually had 36 bits in the word, all of which
|where addressable.

They still do.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi