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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: Oops (Concertina II Going Around in Circles)
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In article <fajp3j12esafhpn3e27ntfq5f538jmb3q7@4ax.com>,
quadibloc@servername.invalid (John Savard) wrote:

> >Of course, this sort of thing may leave you gasping in shock and
> >horror. But look at the bright side. While 128 is a somewhat large
> >number, it isn't astronomical; I haven't provided for an opcode 
> >space so large that there isn't enough matter in the whole Universe to
> >print a programmer's manual for the architecture.
> >
> >Now, _that_ would be genuinely impracitcal!
> 
> Of course, as these many additional sets of instructions get fleshed
> out, were the ISA to be implemented

I think you've just added another couple of orders of magnitude to the
odds against that happening. 

John