25 Sep
2018
25 Sep
'18
6:12 p.m.
From: Arthur Krewat
Also, granted, to this day you can still use only
8-bits of a register:
Yeah, but that's not totally useless; lots of byte-organized data out there in
the world, e.g. ASCII strings. 16-bit data, less so, although there is some in
networking protocols (checksums, ports, etc - although the checksums you
_compute_ using bigger chunks).
(Not a defense of the x86 instruction set, mind!)
Noel
25 Sep
25 Sep
8:49 p.m.
New subject: SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 08:12:12AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Windows and Microsoft Office still uses UTF-16....
- Ted
From: Arthur
Krewat
Also, granted, to this day you can still use only
8-bits of a register:
Yeah, but that's not totally useless; lots of byte-organized data out there in
the world, e.g. ASCII strings. 16-bit data, less so, although there is some in
networking protocols (checksums, ports, etc - although the checksums you
_compute_ using bigger chunks). 
9:29 p.m.
New subject: SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.
On 9/25/2018 8:12 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Oh, I like 8-bit operations... I use them a lot. Coming from MACRO-10 on
a 36-bit PDP-10 I used in high school, the move to microcomputers was
challenging in some ways, but much easier in others. Especially 7 or 8
bit operations.
From: Arthur
Krewat
Also, granted, to this day you can still use only
8-bits of a register:
Yeah, but that's not totally useless; lots of byte-organized data out there in
the world, e.g. ASCII strings. 16-bit data, less so, although there is some in
networking protocols (checksums, ports, etc - although the checksums you
_compute_ using bigger chunks).
(Not a defense of the x86 instruction set, mind!)
Noel
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