How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes

[Dan Stromberg]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno <
carlosnepomuceno at outlook.com> wrote:

> ________________________________
> > Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 15:41:41 -0700
> > Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes
> > From: drsalists at gmail.com
> > To: python-list at python.org
> [...]
> > Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von
> > Neumann) computer that didn't have 8 bit bytes.  Quantum computers
> > would still sell if they were odd this way - they're going to be really
> > different anyway.
>
> Nowadays it would be a hard task to find a Von Neumann architecture
> machine.
>
> Most of current CPUs are variants of the Harvard architecture: they
> separate instructions from data at the cache level.
>

I stand corrected.  Thank you.
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