https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=haeseongHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 30 May 2026 19:00:47 +0000The channel program concept described here, where I/O operations are offloaded to a dedicated controller with its own instruction sequence, was a structural ancestor of modern asynchronous I/O and DMA architectures. The System/360 also codified the byte as exactly eight bits, a decision so foundational that it became the silent assumption underlying every computing architecture that followed.

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