On 2018-05-11, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:55:17 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>
>> Hex came into vogue in the DEC world with the VAX, which was both
>> byte-addressed and had a hex-oriented instruction encoding.
>
>
> [...] You had computers with 6, 9, or even 60 bits per byte
Ah, the old CDC-6600 had 60-bit words.
IIRC, the Pascal compiler used a 6-bit wide character set, which meant
that you could fit 10 characters in a word, and Pascal identifiers
were limited to 10 characters.
> I'm also told that some of those computers didn't run Windows.
Of course not, everything ran Linux back in the good old days.
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