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Re: Mechanical Memory for Computing
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:25:52 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org^antispam^
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Kevin L. Clague <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been around computer hardware since the intel 8008 (about 1978), and
> a byte has always been 8 bits, and a nibble 4 bits. I do not claim to
> know all architectures though).
Other-sized bytes are much older than that. I think 8 bits became the
standard in the 60s or early 70s. I believe the PDP-10, a 36-bit computer,
used 9-bit bytes.
Hmmm. We've got this thing called "The Internet". I bet it's good for
finding answers to stuff like this.... :)
Yep: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte>
Looks like the standardization of 8 bits is from 1954! And the original term
described between 1 and 6 bits.
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> In some machines 16 bits is a word, and in others a half word, 32 bits is a word
> or a double word, 64 bits is a double word or a quad word..... Typically though
> in modern architectures (which may not include intel ;^) a byte is 8, half word
> is 16, a word is 32, double word is 64, and quad-word is 128.
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> >
> > FUT: .off-topic.geek
> >
> > ROSCO
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> Kevin
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