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From: Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 20:51:35 +0100
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On 4 June 2013 14:39, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2013-06-03, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von Neumann)
>> computer that didn't have 8 bit bytes.
>
> There are tons (as in millions of units per month) of CPUs still being
> sold in the DSP market with 16, 20, 24, and 32 bit "bytes".  (When
> writing C on a TMS320Cxx CPU sizeof (char) == sizeof (int) == sizeof
> (long) == sizeof (float) == sizeof (double) == 1.  They all contain 32
> bits.
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