Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Why no 10-bit/5-bit computers?

I'm thinking that 8-bit was enough to represent most of the symbols we had and 32*32 was unnecessary. Maybe doing 's'-'o' would !not automatically sync in the human mind? (the proportion of alpha chars would grossly exceed the near-balance in hexadecimal)

Can someone elaborate for me?

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