On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Loren P Meissner wrote:
> And I think in the early days, the "word" occupied by a default integer
> was usually the smallest addressable storage unit. (Was IBM 360 the
> first byte-addressable machine?)
I think the 1401 would fit into this category, although they weren't
exactly bytes. I would guess that it was the success of the 1401
that lead IBM to byte addressability in the 360.
Wes
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