How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes

[Fábio Santos]

On 5 Jun 2013 06:23, "Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> A single machine word was 60 bits, so a single register read got you 10
> characters.

10 characters! Now that sounds like it's enough to actually store a word.
However long words can inadverten be cropped.
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