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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it> wrote:

>x86 (with x different from "80" - and maybe also "802") is not all that=20
>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 =3D 8 bits.


Vinzent.

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