Integers vs. Long Integers Was: RE: [AccessD] Global Variable

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu May 19 20:12:03 CDT 2005


On 19 May 2005 at 19:57, John W. Colby wrote:

> >You are calling your 3 bit group  a Byte 
> 
> I never called "my" 3 bit group a byte.  Where did I say that?  In fact it
> most assuredly isn't "my" three bit group.
> 

I said:
"Yep,  9 bits to a byte on quite a few early machines."
and you replied:
"No, it was groups of 3 bit octal numbers."

To me that certainly looks as though you were saying that it was a 3 bit 
byte. If not, I don't see any point in your remark and why you used the 
"No"




-- 
Stuart





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