On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:31:53 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:

>an 8-bit processor could do 32-bit arithmetic by nibbling off one byte of it 
>at a time.

ITYM "had to" rather than "could".

-- 
Tom Marchant

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