3 Oct
2012
3 Oct
'12
3:59 p.m.
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:44:16 -0400, "Tony Patti" said:
Perhaps worth noting (for the archives) that a significant part of the early ARPAnet was DECsystem-10's with 36-bit words.
And the -10s and -20s were the major reason RFCs refer to octets rather than bytes, as they had a rather slippery notion of "byte" (anywhere from 6 to 9 bits, often multiple sizes used *in the same program*).