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Date:      Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:12:05 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        toneil@visigenic.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: signed/unsigned cpp 
Message-ID:  <E0wZlhN-0003Ei-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 23:03:01 %2B0200." <16479.865458181@verdi.nethelp.no> 
References:  <16479.865458181@verdi.nethelp.no>  <3.0.32.19970604131514.00a368e0@visigenic.com> 

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In message <16479.865458181@verdi.nethelp.no> sthaug@nethelp.no writes:
: Don't tell this to DEC-10 people :-)

The C compiler that I used on a Tops-20 machine back at New Mexico
Tech (where the compiler was written) had 8 bit characters, packed 4
to a 36-bit word.  The char * pointers were, ah, interesting.

Warner



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