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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
| Further, giving again answer to the question whether they generate signed or
| unsigned comparisons: Have you ever seen a computer which addresses memory with
| negative numbers? Since the answer is most likely no, signed comparisons would
| not make sense for me.

The Transputer has (had?) a signed address space:

http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/transputer/chapter2/chap2-3.html

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