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		aidenn0 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes The PDP-10 didn't really have bytes; it had 36-bit words. AFAIK only Multics used 4 9-byte characters on the PDP-10s; I believe 5 7-bit ASCII characters fairly common later on in the PDP7/10 lifetime.

unused0 7 months ago | [–]

Multics ran on Honeywell 6180 and DPS8/M machines. They had 36 bit words like the PDP-10. They also had instructions that would operate o in 6 or 9 bit characters in the word

msla 7 months ago | [–]

Multics never ran on PDP-10s, but on other 36-bit mainframes.

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