Bit Addressable Architectures

[Joe Keane]

In article <1988Mar14.193330.488 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
writes:
> Since octal is the way God meant programmers
> to count (the thumbs are parity bits) :-), this is clearly a Good Thing.
Right reason, wrong answer.  Your hands can of course hold 10 bits.  Since you
say the thumbs are parity bits, that means they hold a byte.  That means each
hand stores - get this - a hex digit.  Down with octal!

--Joe