Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN

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")