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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: bit addressing Byte Addressability And Beyond
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According to Michael S  <already5chosen@yahoo.com>:
>> years ago.  And I still don't think that bit operations are common
>> enough to be worth using bits in every non-bit address.
>
>Bit-addressable TMS34010 was released 38 years ago and even was
>moderately successful. So, it seems, 50 yeras ago nothing was set in
>stone yet.

True, but that chip is designed to be good for video rendering which
is an unusual application that uses a lot of bit aligned data.

Chips for specialized applications have all sorts of strange
architectures. Look at the Moto 56K DSP with 24 bit words and separate
instruction and data memories.  I wouldn't want to try and run linux
on it but it's great for signal processing.




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