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From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-= ?
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 19:47:11 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8084735c-b0f7-4d2c-8b50-881092ece421@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.7163.1437348015.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 4:50:18 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> in the computer-computer world, where it should be 512 chars
> max and Anglo-American only.

A 9-bit byte?!?!

Yeah when we were students we studied the CDC-cyber and such which had 60 bit
words...
Didnt expect to find a user of those venerable machines in 2015 on USENET 😉
(Spelt as <wink> for those restricted to vintage equipment)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-20  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-18 18:32 C-= ? Sharon Kimble
2015-07-18 19:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-18 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-19  1:26 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-19  8:10   ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-19  9:15     ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-19 23:14       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]       ` <mailman.7163.1437348015.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-20  2:47         ` Rusi [this message]
2015-07-19  3:37 ` Vaidheeswaran C

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