dumb question
Aug. 7th, 2012 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brushwolfOkay, computer science types, can you give me a hand here?
Reading about the Kirsch equation, it occurs to me that modelling objects in 3 dimensional space would be a real goal of initial computers. And what's more, a system bus has three components, control/data/address. It seems pretty logical to try locating something as some multiple of 3 bits, so you could potentially have 9-bit or 18-bit microprocessors, 324 colors, 104975 port transport layers, stuff like that.
But, microprocessors are based around octets. Why is this, ease in handling, historical precedent?
Reading about the Kirsch equation, it occurs to me that modelling objects in 3 dimensional space would be a real goal of initial computers. And what's more, a system bus has three components, control/data/address. It seems pretty logical to try locating something as some multiple of 3 bits, so you could potentially have 9-bit or 18-bit microprocessors, 324 colors, 104975 port transport layers, stuff like that.
But, microprocessors are based around octets. Why is this, ease in handling, historical precedent?