On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 06:52:57PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote: > "Pick a number between this and that." It's the 80's and you can > still count the computers in the world. :)
And yet, almost concurrently, IEEE 802 went with forty-eight bits. Go figure. I'm pretty sure the explanation you're looking for is: It was with the word size of the most popular minis and micros at the time. -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \ / |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__
