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Author ztane
Recipients Jeffrey.Walton, alex, alexandre.vassalotti, christian.heimes, deadshort, dmalcolm, donmez, fweimer, jcea, jwilk, loewis, mark.dickinson, martin.panter, matejcik, nnorwitz, pitrou, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner, xiang.zhang, ztane
Date 2016-08-01.06:18:04
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I don't believe Python would really ever work on a platform with non-8-bit-bytes, I believe there are way too much assumptions *everywhere*. You can program in C on such a platform, yes, but not that sure about Python.

And on 8-bit-byte platfomrs, there is no large model with 16-bit pointers anywhere. There just are not enough bits that you could have multiple 64k byte-addressable segments that are addressed with 16-bit pointers. 

It might be that some obscure platform in the past would have had 128k memory, with large pointers, 2 allocatable 64k segments, >16 bit char pointer and 16-bit object pointers pointing to even bytes, but I doubt you'd be really porting *Python 3* to such a platform, basically we're talking about something like Commodore 128 here.
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2016-08-01 06:18:05ztanesetrecipients: + ztane, loewis, nnorwitz, jcea, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner, christian.heimes, alexandre.vassalotti, donmez, matejcik, jwilk, alex, dmalcolm, python-dev, deadshort, martin.panter, serhiy.storchaka, fweimer, Jeffrey.Walton, xiang.zhang
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