On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, at 6:44pm, Jon Hall wrote:
> To throw a bit (pun un-intentional) more into this discussion, don't
> assume that a "byte" was eight bits.  The PDP-8, Linc-8 and PDP-12 for
> instance, were all twelve bit words, broken down into two six-bit
> characters.

  I'm just curious... was Unix ever developed on any of those?  I was pretty
much under the impression that Unix assumes an 8-bit byte, but I don't
really have anything to back that up...

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