Sujet : Re: byte me, The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 27. Feb 2025, 05:47:44
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:44:31 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
I am reasonably sure that the 635 only had hardware support
for 6 and 9 bit bytes and I don't think the 645 or 6000 changed that.
Looking at one of the GE-645 system manuals at Bitsavers, the term used is
“character size”, and the options mentioned are indeed only 6 or 9 bits.