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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Streams in Ada
Date: 03 Apr 2001 20:15:23 +0200
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"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?