in reply to Re^3: 3-byte representation (Simplified!)
in thread 3-byte representation
Mind, I don't know if there is any hardware that accepts 24-bit BE values.
I don't know if there are still any out in the wild and I don't recall their endian-ness but ICL 1900 series machines used a 6-bit character representation and had 24-bit words.
Update: Corrected typo, supplied missing word :-(
Cheers,
JohnGG
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Re^5: 3-byte representation (Simplified!)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2011 at 15:45 UTC |
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