[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[der Mouse]

> I've always wondered about the relevance of the 8 bit byte in today's
> world where the majority of (desktop) processors are no longer 8 bit.

> Is there some elephant in the room that I can't see?

Those processors, while not 8-bit in the sense of having registers,
ALUs, and internal data paths that are 8 bits wide, _are_ 8-bit in an
important sense: their programmer-visible addressing unit is 8 bits.

As long as that's true, 8-bit bytes will remain important.

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