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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by skissane on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:54PM (#44818802)
The Soviets had ternary computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

Then they decided to abandon their indigenous technology in favour of copying Western designs

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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by jojobas on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:06PM (#44820173)
There was a very good reasons for it, indigenous designs were obsolete by the time they left the drawing boards and countless design bureaus cost stupid amounts of money while producing dozens of incompatible computers. By the time they decided to adopt ES EVM they lagged by some 5 years and continued to lag further behind.
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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by nxobject on Thursday August 07, 2025 @01:55AM (#44821073)
Conversely, the Soviet Union took the PDP-11 ISA to its limits... including home computers with framebuffers and programmable calculators.
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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by dale_glass on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:04AM (#44822245)
Setun apparently used two bits to represent a ternary value, wasting the 4th state.
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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by bux93 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:16AM (#44822687)
We call that 1.58 bit now..
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