19 Oct
2005
19 Oct
'05
9:48 a.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Strange -- my hardware is just like that ( When I get it finshed ) .
The PDP-10 has done that already.
Oddly this homebrew I am working can't do real C, since now C is almost
allways 32 bit code and
I've got only a whoopping 64kb of ram. :( I think a 20 bit int is
also a nice size too and 10 bit bytes.
You're absolutely right.
I like those sizes, because they're a good fit with my hardware.
... therefore using an 18-bit int would be silly. If you were using a
machine with a 9-bit byte length (not parity, actually 9 bits) then it
wouldn't seem such a bad idea.
Gordon.