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