Byte sizes (was Re: 2.8M 3.5' floppy

[William Donzelli]

> I never said a word about 6 bits ... I grumble about  11111111 base 0 bits.
> There is a lot of good reasions why we have 8 bits mostly because 4 bits 
> work
> nice for MSI like alu's and shift registers.

I would think the other way around. MSI is mostly 4 bit multiples because
the 8 bit byte is popular. 3 (or sometimes 5) bit devices are only used
when there is no other choice.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org