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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The integral type 'byte' (was Re: Suggested method for returning
 a string from a C program?)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:06:50 +0100
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On 28.03.2025 13:00, David Brown wrote:
> On 28/03/2025 11:22, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>>
>> I was also astonished that bart had it in his short-list. So I'm not
>> inclined to accept your words that it's "known only to a few nerds".
>> (It's not necessarily the best technologies that "survive".) YMMV.
> 
> Bart is a nerd of rare quality.  (I mean that in a good way.)  It does
> not surprise me that he is familiar with it.

He's not the only one I met, as said; an IT-competent friend of mine
(origin in Australia, so it's no "local effect") also knew it and
perceived that CPU as one with a very interesting architecture.

Bart's engagement, OTOH, (as I perceived it from his posts) appeared
to me to have a comparably narrow focus. And I didn't know (or forgot)
that he was a "hardware engineer" as he mentioned/stressed recently.

Given the short lifetime of the NS CPU it's likely nonetheless an
(at least now) rarely known thing.

Janis

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