Byte sizes (was Re: 2.8M 3.5' floppy

[William Donzelli]

> The real gotya on the old machines... UPPER CASE ASCII ONLY.

Actually, the switch to the eight bit byte (I am of the camp that a byte
is 8 bits by default, then adjust to suit) was dictated not by characters,
but by numbers - the vast majority of data in the 1960s was BCD. Six bit
is not very efficient for handling BCD.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org