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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:53:08 -0000
From:      "Barry Scott" <tsbarry@nortelnetworks.com>
To:        "'Achim Patzner'" <ap@bnc.net>, "'freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: I4B support for US ISDN?
Message-ID:  <81C8165DD2A7D111AD700000F81F29CB02504A2C@nwcwi19.europe.nortel.com>

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> Totally off-topic, but...

One of the first computers I used was the DEC PDP-10 it allowed you to haves
bytes from 1 to 36 bits each. That would be at the time that CCITT used
octet.

The CCITT would not have used byte as its did not mean 8 bits. TOday byte
means
8 bits, (was byte a Borg invention along with EBCDIC?).

		BArry

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