[OT] Why is it called string?

[Andrew Dalke]

Paul Watson
> My CS professor would insist that a byte is a collection of bits, and not
> necessarily eight.  There are machines which do not have 8-bit addressable
> bytes.

I thought that was called a word, as in "the CDC 6400 had a 60
bit word size"

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com