No, "Heath" – it's not "#agebias" .. those systems had *word* sizes of 6-40 bits
“In [Heath's] view, this also revealed age bias. Modern computer systems use 8-bit bytes, but older computer systems could have byte sizes ranging from six to 40 bits.” https://t.co/xlQQkMTJD2 pic.twitter.com/BOi0TVPiyU
— Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) August 1, 2019
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August 01, 2019 at 04:02AM
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