From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 02:47:52 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: questions about bits and bytes
Message-ID: <m0u876G-0008z6C@pacifier.com>
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At 02:51 PM 4/12/96 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
>At 11:34 AM 4/12/96 -0500, Doug Hughes wrote:
>>
>>On Apr 12 at 8:07
>>jim bell wrote:
>>>
>>>Are you sure they're not referring to 8 bits of data and a parity bit?  In 
>>>any case, please give the address to the list so that it can be checked out.
>>
>>Come on, give it up already and admit you were wrong. At least 8 different
>>people have cited examples of machines that supported non 8bit bytes. Your
>>pride is getting the best of you.
>
>Jim is unwilling to admit his errors, even in things he has little or no
>training in.  (I remember him claiming at one point that he was not a
>programmer or did any coding for that matter.  Why he continues to persist
>in such things I will not speculate on...)

What I meant was the most honest answer I could give:  I am not a 
professional programmer.  I have programmed, in APL, Fortran, Algol, PL/1, 
Pascal, and I can read BASIC's well enough, but not recently.