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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:33:30 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] addition to fortune file
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erik quanstrom wrote:
>>>From the ISO-2022/ECMA-035 spec:
> 
> 4.2	byte
> 	A bit string that is operated upon as a unit.
> 
> 	NOTE 3
> 	Each bit has the value either ZERO or ONE.
Guess they didn't want to bother with those russian trinary machines[1]

[1] http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/museum/PHOTOS/Setun-1.html