Subj : silence is golden
To   : Sergey Dorofeev
From : Markus Reschke
Date : Sun Sep 10 2017 18:36:56

Hi Sergey!

May 10 11:24 2012, Sergey Dorofeev wrote to Markus Reschke:

 MR>> Have you ever written code for 8 bit CPUs running at 1, 2 or 4 MHz? 
 MR>> The binary header helps to process the message more easy and faster 
 MR>> than ASCII encoded addresses and stuff. And it also reduces the size 
 MR>> of the message. Back in the days of 300 bps modems you could count the 
 MR>> seconds saved. And RAM was limited too those days.

 SD> Linux requires at least 386 CPU (that is 32 bit) from the very birth.

Yep! But Fido is older than linux. BTW you can run linux on a 8 bit CPU using 
an emulator. That was recently done on an ATmega.

Regards,
Markus

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