Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!oberon!castor.usc.edu!walker
From: walker@castor.usc.edu (Michael D. Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: *Why* do modern machines mostly have 8-bit bytes
Message-ID: <4150@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 01:54:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: oberon.4150
Posted: Thu Aug 20 01:54:51 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 07:33:05 EDT
References: <2807@phri.UUCP> <101200004@datacube> <1332@killer.UUCP> <986@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Sender: nobody@oberon.USC.EDU
Reply-To: walker@castor.usc.edu (Michael D. Walker)
Organization: University Computing Services, U.S.C.
Lines: 16

In article <986@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>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.

So do ours!




:-]

arpa: walker%castor.usc.edu@oberon.usc.edu
uucp: sdcrdcf!oberon!castor!walker