This is my understanding as well. This was a pure political decision that led to a
pretty horrible technical result. The systems we work with like powers of 2. They woek
ok with other composites. They DO NOT like primes. 53 is a prime number and this must
cause no end of headaches to someone in the ATM ASIC building business.
"McCallum, Robert" wrote:
> It was a compromise. Data people wanted no less than 128bytes and Voice
> people wanted no more than 32 bytes. SO a compromise was reached.
>
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