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It's not entirely historically accurate. Early machines were "word addressable" (where the words wasn't 8-bit) which by your definition should have been calle
by FullyFunctional 4y ago
It's not entirely historically accurate. Early machines were "word addressable" (where the words wasn't 8-bit) which by your definition should have been called "byte addressable".
There were even bit addressable computers, but it didn't catch on :)
If it wasn't for text, there would be nothing "natural" about an 8-bit byte (but powers-of-two are natural in binary computers).
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago> There were even bit addressable computers, but it didn't catch on Cortex-M has bit addressability as a vendor option. They're mapped onto virtual bytes in a region of memory so the core doesn't have to handle them in a special way.