Re: The integral type 'byte' (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)

On 28.03.2025 13:00, David Brown wrote:

On 28/03/2025 11:22, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

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I was also astonished that bart had it in his short-list. So I'm not
inclined to accept your words that it's "known only to a few nerds".
(It's not necessarily the best technologies that "survive".) YMMV.

 
Bart is a nerd of rare quality.  (I mean that in a good way.)  It does
not surprise me that he is familiar with it.

He's not the only one I met, as said; an IT-competent friend of mine
(origin in Australia, so it's no "local effect") also knew it and
perceived that CPU as one with a very interesting architecture.

Bart's engagement, OTOH, (as I perceived it from his posts) appeared
to me to have a comparably narrow focus. And I didn't know (or forgot)
that he was a "hardware engineer" as he mentioned/stressed recently.

Given the short lifetime of the NS CPU it's likely nonetheless an
(at least now) rarely known thing.

Janis

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