From: jgd@cix.co.uk   
      
   In article <10m3ars$3loo1$1@dont-email.me>, quadibloc@ca.invalid (quadi)   
   wrote:   
      
   > Giving it additional numeric types which are stored normally in   
   > registers, but which are stored in memory using only the least   
   > significant eight bits of each nine-bit byte, would allow it to   
   > exchange data with conventional machines based on the eight-bit   
   > byte.   
      
   Isn't that going to create opcode space pressure?   
      
   It's certainly going to create some interesting new types of bad data if   
   pointers to the two types of data get confused.   
      
   How are you planning to handle UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 character data?   
   Creating UTF-9, UTF-18 and UTF-36 seems like pointless complexity.   
      
      
   John   
      
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