On 4 June 2013 14:39, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2013-06-03, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von Neumann) >> computer that didn't have 8 bit bytes. > > There are tons (as in millions of units per month) of CPUs still being > sold in the DSP market with 16, 20, 24, and 32 bit "bytes". (When > writing C on a TMS320Cxx CPU sizeof (char) == sizeof (int) == sizeof > (long) == sizeof (float) == sizeof (double) == 1. They all contain 32 > bits. )
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