Re: [TUHS] 6-bit, 7-bit and 9-bit byte UNIXes - TUHS

30 Sep 2004

Natalia

I don't know of any non-8-bit Unix systems, but Multics, on the GE645 at
least, had a 36-bit word. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Natalia Portillo" &lt;iosglpgc(a)teleline.es&gt;
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:07:46 +0100
To: &lt;tuhs(a)tuhs.org&gt;
Subject: [TUHS] 6-bit, 7-bit and 9-bit byte UNIXes

...
  Hi!

 Was there any UNIX with 6-bit wide, 7-bit wide or 9-bit wide bytes or all
 UNIXes are 8-bit wide bytes?

 Regards

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