Re: [stella] What's magic about a byte?

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


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