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To: sthaug@nethelp.no
Subject: Re: signed/unsigned cpp 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 23:03:01 +0200."
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:12:05 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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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