On 6/28/20 12:39 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: > On 6/28/2020 12:06 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> Since I am working on a 1970's style computer ( blinking lights, > front panel,core memory, big rack with I/O devices) currently > being emulated in FPGA,I have been looking things from that era > rather than the modern stuff. It is sure hard to find a 16 or 32 bit cpu > that has simple byte accessing from that era. That may > be one of the reasons the PDP 11 and/or Unix developed the growth > of more modern software and programming ideas. Why is byte-granularity in addressing a necessity? It's only an issue if you have instructions that operate directly on byte quantities in memory. --Chuck
