Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: 8 bit cpu Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:36:37 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 14 Message-ID: <87a4zftla2.fsf@example.invalid> References: <10i1vam$o2j0$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:36:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="894749802d7915901b7660361eba191f"; logging-data="831660"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18HzagtsafNV9JkAS9Yv7Tx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uMX5sLL4L4elXs0hszBKNITPFiU= sha1:sRIp9EnBJbsIemOLmIeSugvFkYc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:395849 BGB writes: [...] > There are no "true" 8 bit systems in this sense, as pretty much every > existing 8-bit CPU has had support for 16-bit operations in some way, > though often by using register pairs. I vaguely recall reading about a true 8-bit system, maybe from the 1950s or so. It had a total of 8 bits of storage. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */