The last machines I used with bytes not being octets were a Univac 1182 with bytes of 6, 9, 12, and 18 bits, and a PDP-10 with bytes of variable size from about 2 (or 1?) up to 35 (or 36?) bits. Both machines had 36-bit words.
The Univac probably didn't call these smaller chunks bytes, but the PDP-10 definitely did. The Univac used 9-bit quarter words to hold ASCII strings, while the PDP-10 packed 5 7-bit bytes into a 36-bit word to represent ASCII strings. Both systems also used (different) 6-bit character sets for some purposes. On 3 September 2013 11:58, Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On 9/2/2013 6:47 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: > >> In any case, there is nothing about "multi-octet" versus "multi-byte" >> that makes one fixed-length and the other variable-length. >> >> Yep. > > A./ > > -- Christopher Vance
