Sujet : Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 02. Mar 2025, 22:38:04
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On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 20:34:09 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
S/360 brought us the addressable 8 bit byte packaged into 16 bit
halfwords and 32 bit words, using the same addressing for each.
Did any machine offer “byte” addressability with “byte” having any meaning
other than “8-bit quantity”?
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