Chris Angelico wrote:
Certainly not. A byte would be 21 bits!
Only if 21 bits were *also* an addressable unit of storage in addition to octets. That would be an interesting architecture indeed. If you really wanted that, it might be easier just to make the memory bit-addressable. In which case a char would be 1 bit! I believe Burroughs built a bit-addressable machine at one point. It was meant to be user-microprogrammable, so you designed an instruction set for what you wanted to do, and then programmed in that. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
