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Different models of System/360 had different internal data path widths the IBM System/360 Model 30 (1965) implemented the 32-bit System/360 architecture, but had an 8-bit native path width, and performed 32-bit arithmetic 8 bits at a time. The IBM System/360 introduced byte-addressable memory with 8-bit bytes, as opposed to bit-addressable or decimal digit-addressable or word-addressable memory, although its general-purpose registers were 32 bits wide, and addresses were contained in the lower 24 bits of those addresses.
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The term '8-bit' is also applied to the character sets that could be used on computers with 8-bit bytes, the best known being various forms of extended ASCII, including the ISO/IEC 8859 series of national character sets – especially Latin 1 for English and Western European languages.
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'8-bit' is also a generation of microcomputers in which 8-bit microprocessors were the norm. Memory addresses (and thus address buses) for 8-bit CPUs are generally larger than 8-bit, usually 16-bit, while they could in theory be 8-bit, and in some situations 8-bit addresses are also used with 16-bit addresses mainly used. Also, 8-bit CPU and ALU architectures are those that are based on registers or data buses of that size. In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet).