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From: abh@POGO.CAMELOT.CS.CMU.EDU (Andrew Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: standard size names
Message-ID: <1023@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 3 Mar 88 17:26:18 GMT
References: <UW=1uvy00XoH4DZktq@andrew.cmu.edu> <499@a.UUCP>
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Summary: CDC `byte'

In article <499@a.UUCP>, jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>						 (CDC machines all used to 
> have 6-bit characters - everyone called them bytes).  
Well, not quite.  A CDC `byte' was 12 bits, or 2 6-bit characters, or 1 PP
word, or 1/5 CM word.

-Andrew Hastings		abh@cs.cmu.edu			412/268-8734