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From: "chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Bytes per character (was Re: An OS in Ada, why not RTEMS ?)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:28:46 +0100
Date: 2002-04-30T00:28:46+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6Hkz8.1765$SD4.119903@news8-gui.server.ntli.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1020122162.2772.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org


"sk" <noname@myob.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1020122162.2772.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> Hi,
>
> > Seems sort of short-sighted to me; it works fine  virtually any
> >
> > ...
> >
> > -Brian
>
> Which is exactly my point ! Which definition do you want
> for a storage element ? My 8-bit defintion, the VGA card's
> definition of 16-bits, or the MPU which likes doubles ?

The x86 vga card doesn't define a storage element as 16bits, it only defines
that in textmode the screen is a set of (attribute, character) code pairs,
each of 8bits.  That's not the same as defining the storage element to be
16bits.





  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-29 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-26 20:58 An OS in Ada, why not RTEMS ? sk
2002-04-28  7:45 ` James Ross
2002-04-28 11:18   ` sk
2002-04-28 21:48     ` James Ross
2002-04-28 23:12       ` Nick Roberts
2002-04-29  2:29       ` sk
2002-04-29  5:48         ` James Ross
2002-04-29 12:09           ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-04-30  5:33             ` James Ross
2002-04-30 15:59               ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-04-29 18:52         ` Bytes per character (was Re: An OS in Ada, why not RTEMS ?) Brian Catlin
2002-04-29 22:15           ` sk
2002-04-29 23:28             ` chris.danx [this message]
2002-04-29 22:51               ` sk
2002-04-28 21:13   ` An OS in Ada, why not RTEMS ? Nick Roberts
2002-04-29  0:34     ` James Ross
2002-04-29  5:19       ` Simon Wright
2002-04-30  6:53         ` James Ross
2002-04-30 16:03           ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-05-01 22:24           ` Simon Wright
2002-04-30  8:49 ` Why not MaRTE was " Alfred Hilscher
2002-04-30 14:08   ` sk
2002-05-07  2:22   ` Nick Roberts
2002-05-12 16:35     ` Freddy

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