learning lots about computing lately

@endless_sine A byte depending on the cpu architecture does not need to be 8 bits. Theres 9 bit bytes arctectures where a word is 36 bits. Theres also 6 bit bytes with 60 bit words.

@OpeDid @endless_sine 6 bits is not legal for characters/"bytes" in C. I do know of a (36 bit) architecture where there are helper functions for dealing with 6 bit units but they're not normal pointers you can do pointer arithmetic on.