Byte addressing 8 bits; in fact, depending on the platform, byte sizes of 1 to 48 bits have been used in the past. Therefore, the term "octet" is used where the context makes byte-length ambiguous. For example, in the 1980s, Honeywell mainframes had 36-bit words, and were byte-addressable in 9-bit bytes, or "nonets", They used 7- or 8-bit character codes, either of which were stored one to each 9-bit byte, making characters individually addressable. To illustrate why byte addressing is useful, consider the IBM 7094, which is word-addressable and has no concept of a byte. It has 36-bit words, and stores its
Byte (magazine) not "how to do it". The editorial focus remained on home and personal computers). By the early 1980s "Byte" had become an "elite" magazine, seen as a peer of "Rolling Stone" and "Playboy", and others such as David Bunnell of "PC Magazine" aspired to emulate its reputation and success. It was the only computer publication on the 1981 Folio 400 list of largest magazines. "Byte"s 1982 average number of pages was 543, and the number of paid advertising pages grew by more than 1,000 while most magazines' amount of advertising did not change. Its circulation of 420,000 was the third