these RTL or what?

[woodelf]

Allison wrote:

> Does it really makes that much differnce the number of bits for a char?
> Really, Six bits was kinda tight for work where upper or lower case
> was used but it didn't affect calculating Pi to a 100 places.
> Wasn't the basic chunk 9 bits for PDP10 and it happened (DEC 
> software) used 6 bit char notation as a carry over from earlier 
> life with friden flexowriter and TTYs on earlier machines?

Floppy disk is 8 bit I/O. That made all the difference when standard
floppy disk controlers came out. Ben.