John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu May 19 06:23:12 CDT 2005
No, it was groups of 3 bit octal numbers. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:57 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: Integers vs. Long Integers Was: RE: [AccessD] Global Variable On 18 May 2005 at 22:31, MartyConnelly wrote: > I worked on the Honewell 6000 series mainframe where the the word size > was 36 bits > Yep, 9 bits to a byte on quite a few early machines. -- Stuart -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com