Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 14:50:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: toneil@visigenic.com (Tim Oneil) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: signed/unsigned cpp Message-ID: <199706042150.OAA19091@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970604131514.00a368e0@visigenic.com> from "Tim Oneil" at Jun 4, 97 01:15:17 pm
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> 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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