Programming and international character sets.

[gordan]

|Some of us don't like the price tag of switching to 16 bits, *especially*
|since the vast majority of our jobs and our customers only need 8.

Yes, but a 16-bit or even 32-bit architecture has many advantages.
Programming is a great deal easier with a flat address space.

Whoops, we're talking about character sets, not chips?  Gosh, how
embarrassing...

On that bright future day when we've all got 1G of memory sitting on our
desktops and optical disk storage coming out of our ears, will 8-bit
character sets be the "segmented architecture" of the 21st century?

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                 Gordan Palameta
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