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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by fouc on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @08:44PM (#44819482)
reminds me of GA144 forthchips where it is effectively 20-bit architecture (vs 32-bit architecture). The instructions are 5-bit, and so 4 instructions can fit in 20-bits.
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