From: "Richard Martin" <rmartin@aw.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 21:22:32 +0800
To: jim bell <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: questions about bits and bytes
In-Reply-To: <m0u7BgI-00091BC@pacifier.com>
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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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