> Can't remember using 12 bit words, but one of the first machines I used, > a CDC 6600, had 60 bit data words and 18 bit addresses. > Text was normally uppercase-only, stored in 6-bit bytes ten characters > per word. But if you wanted to use lower case you could use a different > encoding which would occupy two of the 6-bit bytes per character, so in > a way you had 12-bit bytes
An instructor called it Consistency Doesn't Count (CDC). That was the big machine on campus back in the day. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
