Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>I'll add that "octet" is itself something of a leftover from when the 36-bit
>dinosaurs walked the earth.
That doesn't seem right to me. Certainly 36-bit machines (and 12-bit and
18-bit ones) frequently divided instruction words into 3-bit units and
used octal notation to represent them. But 36%8 != 0.
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