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From: Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN
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Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:

> A lot of older machines were character-addressable. The term "byte" hadn't
> been invented yet. The 1401 (etc), 1620, and many 70xx machines.

Point of order:  Yes, it had.  It simply was a term of art in signal
processing, not in computer engineering.

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Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
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