10 bit bytes would be awesome! Think of 20 bit microcontrollers and 40 bit workstations. 40 bits makes 5 byte words, that'd be rad. Also, CPUs could support "le

10 bit bytes would be awesome! Think of 20 bit microcontrollers and 40 bit workstations. 40 bits makes 5 byte words, that'd be rad. Also, CPUs could support "legacy" 32 bit integers and use a full 8 bits for tags, which are useful for implementing dynamic languages.