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Re:Two's complement – You beauty by kps on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @01:15PM (#13376064)
Yes. The early situation was very different; see e.g. http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL-III-B.html from 1955.

The IBM 360 (1964–) was the killer 8-bit-byte machine.

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