I've been working on this serial port support and been using the  
ThirtyTwoBitRegister class to manage
the bits that need to be poked and peeked out of memory. However today  
I discovered that

| a b |
a _ ThirtyTwoBitRegister new load: 16rFCFCFCFC.
b _ a copy.  "sorry can't resist making a copy"
a = b

a = b -> false

now I know that register 'a' is not the same as register 'b'
but really I'm more interested if the contents of register 'a' is equal  
to the contents of register 'b'
thus I'm going to add a '=' and a hash to ThirtyTwoBitRegister class to  
enable this.

I was using this class to mange longs that come out of a c structure  
and was leary of using SmallInteger and
LargePositiveIntegers to do this, besides the printstring gives hex  
output which is useful when bit twiddling
Other thoughts are welcome.

PS The only other place this class is used is in the Digital Signatures  
logic (SecureHashAlgorithm).

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