Comment on Redis on the Raspberry Pi: Adventures in unaligned landsparentComments−jimktrains29yThey didn't feel like they needed those 2 bytes and, hey, why waste space?Also, was a "byte" standardized at the time? Didn't they still have systems working in not-8-bit "byte", nibbles, byte, and 2-byte boundaries?−danesparza9yFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History - a byte was in the process of getting standardized at around the same time.
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They didn't feel like they needed those 2 bytes and, hey, why waste space?
Also, was a "byte" standardized at the time? Didn't they still have systems working in not-8-bit "byte", nibbles, byte, and 2-byte boundaries?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History - a byte was in the process of getting standardized at around the same time.