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> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 15:41:41 -0700
> Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes
> From: drsali...@gmail.com
> To: python-list@python.org
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> Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von
> Neumann) computer that didn't have 8 bit bytes. Quantum computers
> would still sell if they were odd this way - they're going to be really
> different anyway.
Nowadays it would be a hard task to find a Von Neumann architecture machine.
Most of current CPUs are variants of the Harvard architecture: they separate
instructions from data at the cache level.
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