[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Jonathan]

On Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:25:42 AM UTC-4, Bob Koehler wrote:

> > If you read back in the thread, you'll see that what i'm really getting at
> 
> > is that a byte  stream is the most generic / lowest common denominator, from
> 
> > which all other data formats can be layered on top of.
>    Just try that on an 18 bit computer.  Or a 36 bit computer.

6 bit bytes or 9 bit bytes. I've used them both.