Sept. 1, 2016
10:56 p.m.
On Sep 1, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Clive D.W. Feather <clive@davros.org> wrote:
Deborah Goldsmith said:
RFCs are still plain text. .tar format hasn???t changed in decades. Bytes are still 8 bits.
Actually, no they aren't. I've spent the last several years programming on a processor where a byte is 16 bits - that is, the C type "unsigned char" can hold values from 0 to 65535 inclusive.
Incidentally, that's something like the third commonest processor in the world. I suspect most of you have owned one at one time or another.
...as part of some larger machine you own, doing digital signal processing inside that machine.