[TUHS] SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 08:12:12AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Arthur Krewat
> 
>     > Also, granted, to this day you can still use only 8-bits of a register:
> 
> Yeah, but that's not totally useless; lots of byte-organized data out there in
> the world, e.g. ASCII strings. 16-bit data, less so, although there is some in
> networking protocols (checksums, ports, etc - although the checksums you
> _compute_ using bigger chunks).

Windows and Microsoft Office still uses UTF-16....

					- Ted