> 36-bit PDP-10s, which supported bytes of width 1-36 bits. I thought they only supported (some) elements of bit sizes that divided 36, but http://www.hakmem.o

> 36-bit PDP-10s, which supported bytes of width 1-36 bits. I thought they only supported (some) elements of bit sizes that divided 36, but http://www.hakmem.org/pdp-10.html#Byte http://www.hakmem.org/pdp-10.html#Byte thought me: “In the PDP-10 a "byte" is some number of contiguous bits within one word. A byte pointer is a quantity (which occupies a whole word) which describes the location of a byte. There are three parts to the description of a byte: the word (i.e., address) in which the byte occurs, the position of the byte within the word, and the length of the byte”