FW: [LINK] Is it Gb or GB?

[Roger Clarke]

At 16:18 +1100 7/11/06, Christopher Vance wrote:
>On the DEC-10, a byte was anything between 1 and 36 (or was it 35?) bytes.
                                                                      ^^^^^
                                                                      bits?

36-word, with one *still* reserved for parity, even then?

Ah yes, it dates to 1964 too, i.e. pre the 360 release:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECsystem-10


>As in, the machine word was 36 bits, and a byte was an contiguous part
>of a a word.

Ah, good old DEC-10, always did plough its own furrow - and is no 
more, and I don't think it's got a lot in the way of descendants has 
it?

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