Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: 8 bit cpu Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:55:18 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 21 Message-ID: <87zf7cfvjt.fsf@example.invalid> References: <10i1vam$o2j0$1@dont-email.me> <87a4zftla2.fsf@example.invalid> <20251220112211.421@kylheku.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="578dbfb0a0a65f08c1efad4eabbb1e11"; logging-data="2555803"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/A+CKkyj6QVn4mgjjZF/Gu" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bm+XIrE3DjGcFn1taAujTPSz+3Y= sha1:ykGECKgfTVuy5+CVwYELcDPGrQo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:395868 Kaz Kylheku <046-301-5902@kylheku.com> writes: > On 2025-12-18, Keith Thompson wrote: >> 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. > > Any guitar pedal with an electronic bypass toggle is a 1 bit system. But not a 1-bit computer. The system I referred to above was an actual computer with 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 */