Hi Neil.

14-Nov-03 11:47:04, Neil Heller wrote to Roger Scudder


 >> Hmmm... if I received a byte value (ASCII) 65 ('A') how would I use
 >>  sscanf() to specify that val_1 = 6 and val_2 = 5?  I've never seen
 >> that  done with sscanf().  Could you also do do that sprintf()?

 RS>> This message is a little old, but I thought the idea of reading
 RS>> data that was written on a machine with a 12 bit word
 RS>> architecture was just too interesting to pass by...

 NH> The architecture of the machine in question was 16-bit.

internal or external. (eg: 8088 is internally 16 bit but externally 8-bit.)

 NH> The integer values were limited to 12-bits (4096 max) and followed
 NH> each other consecutively so that 2 integer values were stored in 3
 NH> bytes of memory.

wierd!  how were they addressed?
could the individual 8-bit bytes be also addressed?

 -=> Bye <=-

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