1996-04-12 - Re: questions about bits and bytes
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From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Message Hash: 87bb34f10a47461afb54ffa6c952714c7d62d5f098d8949eefa16f5d6dcd7fa6
Message ID: <199604111722.NAA02646@universe.digex.net>
Reply To: <JZX7LD7w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-12 10:22:35 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:22:35 +0800
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From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:22:35 +0800
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Subject: Re: questions about bits and bytes
In-Reply-To: <JZX7LD7w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Message-ID: <199604111722.NAA02646@universe.digex.net>
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Dr. Dimitri Vulis writes:
>I used to hack a CDC Cyber box designed by Seymour Cray before he started his
>oen company. It had the following curious features:
>
>1 word = 10 _bytes_ = 60 bits
>1 _byte_ = 6 bits
. . .
>I believe BESM-6 also had 6-bit bytes. I have the dox for it someplace
>(in Russian) but can't find them offhand.
>
>Moral: it's not necessarily redundant to say '8-bit byte'.
Which is precisely the reason the IETF always refers to "bytes" as
"octets". "Octet" is defined to be eight bits, regardless of local
word sizes.
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- 1996-04-13 (Sun, 14 Apr 1996 02:52:47 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
- 1996-04-11 (Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:57:04 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
- 1996-04-11 (Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:30:44 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- 1996-04-11 (Fri, 12 Apr 1996 06:22:00 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
- 1996-04-11 (Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:18:37 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
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- 1996-04-11 (Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:28:27 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - “Peter D. Junger” <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>