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Re: questions about bits and bytes


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On Apr 10,  6:57pm, jim bell wrote:
> At 06:29 PM 4/10/96 -0700, Simon Spero wrote:
> >No, bytes are no always 8 bits - some machines use(d) 9-bit bytes.
> I notice you gave no examples.  Why is that?
Perhaps he thought that most people who were interested could go look
it up themselves.

- From a really quick web search, we find that the SGI Impact jams 9-bit
bytes [that's what it says] across the Rambus internally. I'm not sure
if the memory itself is 9-bit.

richard

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