PDP8 has a 12 bit word and does not use 8-bit bytes at all. The Fujitsu FACOM 128, one is still operational, uses 5 bits as a byte to represent one decimal digit. Sixty years ago electromechanical was the leading edge because everything else was too unreliable. It wasn't always like this and in the future binary as a basis for digital computing may be as out of date as vacuum tubes and electromechanical step relays are today. Totally worth it, I guess.So in the world of elite pay, it's Mary Barra who's working for 'poverty wages'.Your question has a lot of hidden assumptions about CPU architecture.Ī study of the way ancient computers were designed can reveal quite a bit about why such choices are made today.Īs to why there are 8 bits in a byte comes down to technical inertia and good enough. some math, this means Bengals QB Joe Burrow is making about $22 million per hour of action time on the field. Sure, they practice to give you the best 2.5 hours they can, but that's all you get. Since no player is both offense and defense, your favorite player is on-field for 2.5 hours a year.
So if Holden came up with the Alpha idea and serves as GM’s in-house RWD developers, why aren’t they developing it? No word for now. “It could be designed and produced off a number of GM platforms, taking advantage of the virtual maths-based processes and component sharing which enabled us to build this working concept in a very short space of time,” said Holden’s design chief at the time. In 2004, when the Torana TT36 concept came out, Holden was raring to build it.
And despite having previously made Holden GM’s RWD “global home room,” it seems that the Alpha platform will be developed in the United States. If, in January of ’08, Lutz was still referring to Alpha as an “if,” the platform still has major engineering work to be done. If we proceed with the Alpha Architecture, I think it is safe to say that Holden would be vitally interested in participating in that project. Now that is the architecture that has been bandied about the US press under the name of ‘Alpha Architecture’, and Alpha is still under consideration, but we haven’t kicked off any design work or any engineering work because we have to sort our way through this 35mpg (6.72L/100km) task. It is, or would be, about the size of a BMW 1-Series - maybe just a tiny bit bigger to enable larger wheels,” Mr Lutz told Go Auto in January 2008. “Torana is a rear-wheel drive vehicle smaller than the Zeta architecture and smaller than the current CTS Cadillac architecture. Now that taxpayers are footing the bill, what can we expect from Alpha? More likely, GM simply had no money to develop the platform in those pre-bailout days. we just have to sort of wait a while and see where we are,” is how Bob Lutz explained it to Go Auto last year. “As a lightweight rear-wheel-drive car that is going to add about 1mpg compared to an equivalent lightweight front-wheel drive car. Though fuel economy issues were said to have killed the possibility of introducing an RWD model below the CTS, the penalty wasn’t huge, making the decision to go with a Saab 9-3 rebadge all the more strange. The TT36 concept was Holden’s pitch for a sub-CTS RWD global premium sedan, although, in proper GM fashion, that job went to the late, unlamented BLS. General Motors’ so-called Alpha platform has been something of an enigma since it was first conceptualized by Holden as the TT36 Torana for the 2004 Sydney Auto Show.
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