Tag:bytes

All the articles with the tag "bytes".

• We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes

  originally posted by Pavel Panchekha

  A number of 70s computing systems had nine-bit bytes, most prominently the PDP-10, but today11 Apparently, it was the System/360 that really set the standard here. all systems use 8-bit bytes and that now seems natural.

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