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馃憢 16, in high school in Hungary | Desiging a processor architecture and interested in low-level programming | Speaks Hungarian and English and some German and Swedish
馃實 Budapest, Hungary
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I'm designing an ISA and processor. If anyone here is involved with low-level dev or processor design: what do you think of using non-8-bit bytes? I'm thinking of making my bytes somewhere between 9 and 12 bits wide, with two bytes long words (between 18 and 24). It would have a lot of advantages, such as more characters fitting into a byte, a larger address space, and more total information that can be stored in memory, but what do you all think?