Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/19/18:57:48
Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>
> El día Wed, 19 May 1999 16:31:58 +0200, dlanor AT dds DOT nl (Ronald
> Landheer) escribió:
>
> >>> > > Most people think that byte is a synonym for 8 bits.
> >>> > I'm aware of that. But that doesn't make it correct, at least not from
> >>> > a 'language-lawyer' point of view. Actually, the equivalence of 8 bits
> >>> > being a byte is a rather recent invention, compared to the use of the
> >>> > 'byte' in computing. There have been 7-bit bytes, 9-bit ones. 8 bits
> >>I think 8 bits is minimum.
> >Nope.. six bits is (for as far as I encountered).
>
> Wrong again. There are still a bunch of 4-bit microprocessors around
> there, and again this is just a *practical* limit. You can build 1-bit
> byte machines if you want. Not very useful, though.
I have a databook for a rather interesting 1-bit microcontroller.
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Nate Eldredge
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