You Are correct Andy. The older systems, and, believe it or not some of
them are still in use, utilize the 12-bit byte. But of course you are
correct that they are the older systems.  Another interesting thing about
the older systems is that some of them were serial rather than parallel bus
architectures. There has been a lot of change. I am happy to see it.

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> From: Andy Kunz <mtdesign@FAST.NET>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [0t]bit,byte,nibble
> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 12:12 PM
>
> At 06:49 AM 10/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >If you find it interesting, the military uses 12-bits for a byte.
>
> It depends on the processor, I'll bet.  On the old 16-bit UYK's I worked
on
> (Navy fire-control system) they were 8-bits to a byte, 16-bits to a word.
>
> Andy
>
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