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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <28200124@ccvaxa>
Date: 18 Mar 88 03:26:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Mar 17 21:26:00 1988


>Best news of all (heh, heh) is that on such a machine one would probably
>want to print pointers in octal, so that the bit offset was cleanly broken
>out in the low-order digit.  Since octal is the way God meant programmers
>to count (the thumbs are parity bits) :-), this is clearly a Good Thing.
>
>Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry

Naw. By the time we have bit addressible machines, we'll have 16 bit bytes,
and will be reading our on-line manual pages in Kanji.