[TUHS] [TUHS} PDP-11, Unix, octal?

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2017-Jan-18 07:04:31 +0100, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
>The PDP-10 did not have a fixed byte size.  Were there any 9-bit
>machines?

The Honeywell 6000 series (aka 66/DPS, a rebadged GE 6xx series) was
36-bit and supported either 6-bit or 9-bit characters.  I don't recall
how you selected which you were using but I recall both Pascal and APL
used the 9-bit byte.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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