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14 Post author: Alex_Altair 13 June 2012 09:49PM

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Comment author: lavalamp 14 June 2012 01:46:07AM 3 points [-]

For instance, it is intuitively clear that no eight-bit program could possibly be a computation hazard on a normal computer.

This is not clear to me at all.

Comment author: Nornagest 14 June 2012 02:34:18AM 1 point [-]

Well, modern computers have word sizes much larger than eight bits, so it's not possible for a valid eight-bit program to exist on such a platform. That's a degenerate case, though.