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On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:39:22 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
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gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> But you couldn't address individual 6-bit "hextets" in memory could
> you?  My recollection is that incrementing a memory address got you
> the next 60-bit chunk -- that means that by the older terminology a
> "byte" was 60 bits.  A "character" was 6 bits, and a single register
> or memory location could hold 6 characters.
>

	How would you interpret the Xerox Sigma instruction set then...

	It had LW (load word), LH (load halfword), LB (load byte)
instructions... BUT the address argument was always considered as a
32-bit word (word 1 was 32-bits after word 0).

	To actually read a sequence of bytes required using LB with an
auxiliary index register, which identified which byte in the word was
desired.
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