Sujet : Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN
De : aek (at) *nospam* bitsavers.org (Al Kossow)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 02. Mar 2025, 11:50:14
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On 2/28/25 5:48 PM, John Levine wrote:
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.
7030 (Stretch) which also used the term "byte" (page 39 of "Planning a
Computer System")
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