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From: jk3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <0WG23wy00W07M9LkhH@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 88 20:33:00 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP>,
	<1988Mar14.193330.488@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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In article <1988Mar14.193330.488@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
writes:
> Since octal is the way God meant programmers
> to count (the thumbs are parity bits) :-), this is clearly a Good Thing.
Right reason, wrong answer.  Your hands can of course hold 10 bits.  Since you
say the thumbs are parity bits, that means they hold a byte.  That means each
hand stores - get this - a hex digit.  Down with octal!

--Joe