In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00b038bb...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>,
on 10/12/2011
at 01:18 PM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said:
>Right. But apparently sometime in the past, there were "bytes" which
>were not 8 bits on non-IBM 360s.
No, on both IBM and non-IBM hardware, starting with the IBM 7030. On
both the IBN S/360 and 3rd party clones, people assumed 8 bits if it
wasn't specified. On boxen not compatible with the S/360 I'm familiar
with assumed sizes of 6, 7, 9 and 12.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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