On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:44:16 -0400, "Tony Patti" said: > > Perhaps worth noting (for the archives) that a significant part of the early > ARPAnet was DECsystem-10's with 36-bit words.
And the -10s and -20s were the major reason RFCs refer to octets rather than bytes, as they had a rather slippery notion of "byte" (anywhere from 6 to 9 bits, often multiple sizes used *in the same program*).
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