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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Streams in Ada
Date: 03 Apr 2001 20:15:23 +0200
Date: 2001-04-03T20:15:23+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8z9j1dw.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9acma8$d5k$1@nh.pace.co.uk

"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:

> I suppose that may be what it would be if you thought of the *LARGEST*
> addressable unit - but going the other direction is I think what was
> intended.

No, the smallest unit which ordinarily hits the memory bus on the
message I'm typing is 32 octets -- a cache line. ;-)

> AFAIK, Alphas will address a single byte

In standardeese, you're correct (a byte is commonly defined as the
smallest addressable storage unit), but if you mean a single octet,
I don't think so, AFAIK, the original Alpha CPU doesn't have this
feature.  (Modern CPUs which also can operate in a PC-like environment
probably have octet) Can anyone shed some light on this issue?



  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-03 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-31 14:49 Streams in Ada chris.danx
2001-03-31 15:22 ` chris.danx
2001-03-31 21:37   ` Jeff Creem
2001-03-31 21:49     ` chris.danx
2001-03-31 22:21       ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-31 22:33         ` chris.danx
2001-04-02 13:47         ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 14:03           ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 14:29             ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 14:54               ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 14:47             ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-02 15:10               ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 15:49                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 16:57                   ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-02 17:43                     ` PDP-10, was " tmoran
2001-04-02 17:49                     ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 22:09                       ` 6-bit characters (was: Re: Streams in Ada) Jeffrey Carter
2001-04-02 23:29                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 16:41                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-04-03 17:57                             ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-03 18:19                               ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-05 18:37                                 ` Tucker Taft
2001-04-03 18:04                             ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-06 22:40                             ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 14:10                         ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-03  1:57                       ` Streams in Ada Larry Kilgallen
2001-04-03 14:13                         ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-13 23:21                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 17:41                   ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 18:17                     ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 19:36                       ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-02 20:54                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 10:10                         ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-03 14:21                           ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-03 18:15                             ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-04-03 23:21                               ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 21:13                       ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 21:22                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 10:02                           ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 16:42                 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-13  5:00                 ` David Thompson
2001-03-31 20:48 ` James Rogers
2001-03-31 21:20   ` chris.danx
2001-03-31 21:22     ` chris.danx
2001-03-31 23:10     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-04-01 11:27       ` chris.danx
2001-04-02 14:12     ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 14:00   ` Ted Dennison
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-05 14:24 Brian Gaffney
2001-04-06 22:54 ` Robert A Duff
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