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They didn't feel like they needed those 2 bytes and, hey, why waste space? Also, was a "byte" standardized at the time? Didn't they still have systems working
by jimktrains2 9y ago
They didn't feel like they needed those 2 bytes and, hey, why waste space?
Also, was a "byte" standardized at the time? Didn't they still have systems working in not-8-bit "byte", nibbles, byte, and 2-byte boundaries?
- danesparza 9y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History - a byte was in the process of getting standardized at around the same time.