From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Subject: Re: Q re pack & aliased
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:30:11 +0200
Date: 2003-04-22T18:30:11+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b83qni$619nm$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3EA56900.70102@crs4.it
Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it> wrote:
>x86 (with x different from "80" - and maybe also "802") is not all that
>byte oriented.
Huh? Since when?
Of course it might be quite inefficient (even on the 8086) but
addresses are still byte[0]-sized on *all* x86.
The first True-Color-VGA had 24-bit-sized pixels. How would you have
addressed them?
[0] In the sense of 1 byte = 8 bits.
Vinzent.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-22 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-20 1:08 Q re pack & aliased tmoran
2003-04-20 11:40 ` David Holm
2003-04-21 4:44 ` tmoran
2003-04-22 16:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-04-22 16:30 ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
2003-04-22 16:44 ` tmoran
2003-04-22 17:23 ` Stephen Leake
2003-04-22 21:45 ` Robert A Duff
2003-04-22 22:25 ` tmoran
2003-04-22 23:10 ` Nick Roberts
2003-04-23 0:24 ` tmoran
2003-04-23 8:07 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-04-23 17:18 ` tmoran
2003-04-23 19:28 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-04-23 11:52 ` Martin Dowie
2003-04-25 16:06 ` Nick Roberts
2003-04-25 16:38 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-04-22 22:51 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-04-22 23:16 ` Nick Roberts
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