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I was in a talk of his, where he said "I was a University professor at a time when a byte was 6 bits".
by theanonymousone 3y ago
I was in a talk of his, where he said "I was a University professor at a time when a byte was 6 bits".
- lukego 3y agoHe said that in his youth his colleagues were in awe of him because he was brave enough to give presentations in English. (They were shy and stuck to the local Swiss German dialect.)
- timbit42 3y agoThe 8-bit byte didn't become a standard until the IBM System/360 was released with it in 1964.