Sujet : Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN
De : johnl (at) *nospam* taugh.com (John Levine)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 01. Mar 2025, 02:48:59
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Taughannock Networks
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According to Peter Flass <
peter_flass@yahoo.com>:
A lot of older machines were character-addressable. The term “byte” hadn’t
been invented yet. The 1401 (etc), 1620, and many 70xx machines.
Oh sure but I am fairly sure that the 360 was the first machine that
was both character and word addressable with the words at power-of-two
addresses, and a design that allowed word operationw to work as a unit
rather than serially by character.
As far as I know it was also the first character addressable binary
machine. The earlier ones were decimal.
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