Subject: Re: [stella] What's magic about a byte? From: Adam Thornton <adam@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:58:34 -0400 |
On Apr 11, 2005, at 6:33 PM, Ruffin Bailey wrote: > Okay, we all know that every bit is sacred, but, out of curiosity, why > are there 8 bits in a byte as opposed to 10 or 3? > IBM and the System/360, mainly. Before that, the size of a byte was all over the place. Adam Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://stella.biglist.com
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