On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 01:11:07PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
On Mon, 2025-09-29 at 15:58 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 08:00:00PM +0100, Joe wrote:
system"), and no flavor of CP/M never targeted a 4-bit microprocessor.
I don't think *any* OS ever targeted a 4 bit microprocessor; they were
basically components for calculators, simple handheld games, and other
single-function devices, not general purpose CPUs.
By today's standards, IBM 1410 would be called a "microprocessor"
No, it would be called a very inefficient mainframe.
— 100 k 6-bit characters.
6 bits can store 4x as many values as 4 bits. Enough, say, for the alphabit...