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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: On the use of 8-bit transfer 
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> If it will "often be performed in practice" (and it would probably be
> important to know how "often" that is), why can it not simply be required?

Because of the high probability (as demonstrated by subsequent experience)
that the conversion will be botched.