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New Re: "not for the reasons you state"
What I had in mind was something like Motorola 6802 (perhaps before your time :)), an 8-bit microprocessor with 128 BYTES of on chip RAM. You would put your code on a separate ROM chip of say 8 KB, but all you had was that measly 128 bytes for memory. So packing bits in bytes was mandatory.
Alex

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
New I'll see your 6802...
...and raise you an Intel 8748: 64 BYTES of on-chip RAM (which also included the two register sets and the stack...oh, wait a minnit-that 64 BYTES was the stack... and 2KB of on-chip EEPROM. Used it to make an IEEE-488 interface controller for light-pipe data acquisition controllers for an EMP measurement system.

And no, it is definitely not before my time... ;-).
jb4
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New :-)
Alex

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
     C Structure Question - (johnu) - (13)
         Re: C Structure Question - (admin) - (1)
             Re: C Structure Question - (johnu)
         :1 allows you to pack multiple members in one word - (Arkadiy) - (8)
             Yuck... - (johnu)
             Read the Cocoa headers - (tuberculosis)
             Re: much slower, too - (a6l6e6x) - (4)
                 Well, embedded applications, yes... - (jb4) - (3)
                     Re: "not for the reasons you state" - (a6l6e6x) - (2)
                         I'll see your 6802... - (jb4) - (1)
                             :-) -NT - (a6l6e6x)
             Re: :1 allows you to pack multiple members in one word - (jb4)
         more than 1 bit is possible too - (SpiceWare)
         It does work with JNIWrapper! - (johnu)

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