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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What is a byte
Message-ID: <2308@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 19:27:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.2308
Posted: Thu Aug 13 19:27:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 12:07:15 EDT
References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <34@piring.cwi.nl> <1549@frog.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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Keywords: 32 bit bytes!  You ain't seen nothin', yet.

In article <1549@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) writes:
>(a side note to provoke more chuckles than thought:  are ideographs the CISCs
>of language?  Perhaps that makes Morse code the RISC...)

No, Morse code is the PDP-8 of language -- an extremely sparse
implementation imposed by severe technical limitations.
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