Timeline for Why did IBM System /360 have byte addressable RAM, but didn't have 8 bits registers
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| Jul 8, 2020 at 12:45 | comment | added | Arvo | @another-dave Why do you think that using variable length character representation (like UTF-8) would be ideal or even usable at register-level processing? | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 8:49 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Supports Israel | ARM also has byte-addressable RAM and 32-bit registers. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 5:44 | answer | added | Martin Rosenau | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 19:37 | comment | added | badjohn | What about EBCDIC? | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 18:23 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 7, 2020 at 18:18 | comment | added | dave | It's not a matter of better or worse these days; it's a matter of the character code actually used by programming platforms. For example, if you think Java characters are ASCII, you're likely to write buggy code. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 17:32 | comment | added | supercat | @another-dave: UTF-8 may be better than ASCII for many desktop applications, but is grossly impractical for many embedded purposes. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 16:48 | vote | accept | No Name QA | ||
| Jul 7, 2020 at 15:06 | history | edited | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 12:56 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 11:26 | answer | added | dave | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 11:25 | comment | added | dave | Side note: ASCII is long obsolete, except in a retrocomputing forum. If you want byte-oriented character codes, use UTF-8. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 10:55 | comment | added | occipita | Not a full answer, as I know little about /360, but the reason we have 8-bit registers in x86 processors is mostly for backward compatibility: they were designed so that programs written for ths 8-bit 8080 processor could be automatically translated to run on them. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 10:23 | history | asked | No Name QA | CC BY-SA 4.0 |