8-bit and 64-bit

While COBOL was initially used on mainframes and systems that could be considered 8-bit in some contexts,?it's not inherently an 8-bit system language?and is now used on diverse operating systems, including 64-bit ones.?

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Here's a more detailed explanation:

• COBOL's Origins:

  COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) was designed for business applications and was one of the first popular languages designed to be operating system-agnostic.?

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• Early Systems:

  In its early days, COBOL was used on mainframes and systems that might have used 8-bit character encoding, but the language itself wasn't tied to any specific bit architecture.?

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• Modern COBOL:

  Today, COBOL is used on a wide variety of systems, including 64-bit platforms and operating systems like z/OS, z/VSE, VME, Unix, NonStop OS, OpenVMS, and Windows.?

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• IBM COBOL for Linux:

  IBM provides a COBOL compiler for Linux on x86 that runs on 64-bit Linux distributions