[TUHS] SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.

[Arthur Krewat]

On 9/25/2018 8:12 AM, 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).
>
> (Not a defense of the x86 instruction set, mind!)
>
>       Noel
>
>
Oh, I like 8-bit operations... I use them a lot. Coming from MACRO-10 on 
a 36-bit PDP-10 I used in high school, the move to microcomputers was 
challenging in some ways, but much easier in others. Especially 7 or 8 
bit operations.