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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.071015.10777@sq.sq.com>
Followup-To: comp.arch
Summary: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
References: <111@melpar.UUCP> <1990Jan21.224826.1699@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <328@ctycal.UUCP> <1922@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 07:10:15 GMT

> I can see no more reason why strings of ASCII characters should be
> transferrable by hardware with little software intervention than binary
> integers, other fixed place binary numbers, other types of numbers ...etc.

Because ASCII is, after all, the American Standard Code for Information
Interchange, and those other things aren't.  See signature quote.


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-- 
Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com
	A standard is established on sure bases, not capriciously but with
	the surety of something intentional and of a logic controlled by
	analysis and experiment. ... A standard is necessary for order
	in human effort.				-- Le Corbusier

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