5 Dec
2016
5 Dec
'16
11:14 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of David
Bridgham
Sent: 05 December 2016 18:37
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Odd "endianness" [was Re: RE: Base 64 posts to the list]
On 12/05/2016 12:17 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Honeywell L66 & DPS8 used to have 36 bit words which originally contained 6
x 6-bit characters.
When they extended the machines to work with ASCII they put 4 x 9-bit
characters which I seem to
remember they called 9-bit bytes..
Dave
Or how about architectures not using a word
length that's an integral
number of bytes?
You mean like any 36-bit machine?