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[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

The 8-bit Intel 8051 family provides a dedicated bit-addressable memory space (addresses 20h-2Fh in internal RAM), giving 128 directly addressable bits. Used them for years. I'd imagine many microcontrollers have bit-width variables.

bit myFlag = 0;

Or even return from a function:

bit isValidInput(unsigned char input) { // Returns true (1) if input is valid, false (0) otherwise return (input >= '0' && input <= '9'); }

[–] frezik@midwest.social 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Nothing like that in ARM. Even microcontrollers have enough RAM that nobody cares, I guess.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tell this to the LPC1114 I'm working with. Did you ever run a multilingual GUI from 2kbytes RAM on a 256x32 pixel display?

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did a multilingual display with an 8031 in 1995 on a 2x16 text LCD. I had 128 bytes of RAM and an EPROM. Did English, Spanish and German.

You kids have it so easy nowadays. 🤣

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Last counting was 114 languages on the LPC1114. And yes, with normal LCDs I've done similar things on an 8051 before.

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