Re: logical paradoxes

From: Traveler (traveler_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:17:52 -0400

In article <Xns954A654B6E997nobodynotmailcom@61.9.191.5>, Kenneth
Doyle <nobody@notmail.com> wrote:

>Traveler <traveler@nospam.com> wrote in
>news:7ac7i0hf01n7rm5smpollbjujt5nb65run@4ax.com:
>
>> In article <mULUc.275018$a24.36851@attbi_s03>, patty
>> <pattyNO@SPAMicyberspace.net> wrote:
>>
>>>The structure of the addressing system does not need to be based on
>>>characters.
>>
>> You're kidding me? Bit addressing is a known thing in computer
>> addressing. A memory address points to the first bit in a sequence of
>> bits. Each bit must be addressed differently.
>
>That's just wrong. You can't address a single bit at all. In order to
>read or write a single bit, you have to read a byte then apply a bit mask
>then (if you're writing) write the entire byte back to the memory location
>it was read from.

What are you, a wise guy? And what do you think applying a bit mask
is? It is an indirect way of addressing the position of the bit within
the byte/word that contains it. Every bit has a distinct and unique
position within the word, no? This is what is meant by the address of
a bit. Some processors have bit-oriented instructions which allows one
to operate on addressable bits without using masks. Deny at your own
detriment. This is all I'm gonna say on this subject because I am
rapidly losing interest.

Louis Savain

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