On 12/29/2020 12:20 PM, John Levine via Internet-history wrote: > It's not so great on 8 bit bytes or 16 bit machines since > you have to do masking and shifting in your head at byte boundaries. thereby, nicely distinguishing what makes for geek macho-hood. back then, at least. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net