Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:57:53 -0700 From: "Harry Reed" <doon@eeyore.lv-hrc.nevada.edu> To: "Terry Lambert" <terry@lambert.org>, "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: signed/unsigned cpp Message-ID: <199706042308.QAA00264@eeyore.lv-hrc.nevada.edu>
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No, no, no. On an H-800 a byte is 8-bits with 3 bytes stored per 24-bit word accessed via a special byte pointer that would make one truey sick. Had to write an assembler/linker/loader for the beast as an undergrad. Definately 8-bit bytes! Harry Reed ---------- > From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> > To: Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com> > Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: signed/unsigned cpp > Date: Wednesday, June 04, 1997 2:50 PM > > > A byte is 8 bits, I don't care what architecture you are running on. > > On a Harris H-800, which is a 24 bit machine, Hollerith encoding > of characters in FORTRAN (the origin of the "byte") mandated 6 > bits. I believe this was the same for the 12 bit PDP machines > from DEC. CDC and others had 14 and 28 bit machines, which tended > to use 7 bit bytes. > > > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers.
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