From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] 6-bit, 7-bit and 9-bit byte UNIXes
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:27:05 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040930235705.GW46815@wantadilla.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040930233847.503FB379@minnie.tuhs.org>
On Thursday, 30 September 2004 at 20:07:46 +0100, Natalia Portillo wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Was there any UNIX with 6-bit wide, 7-bit wide or 9-bit wide bytes
> or all UNIXes are 8-bit wide bytes?
On page 182 of K&R 1st edition there's a reference to an
implementation of C on the Honeywell 6000, with 9 bit bytes. There's
no mention of whether it was running UNIX.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-30 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-30 19:07 Natalia Portillo
2004-09-30 23:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2004-10-01 0:21 ` Kenneth Stailey
2004-10-01 0:58 ` Michael Davidson
2004-09-30 23:46 James Petts
2004-10-01 0:47 Norman Wilson
2004-10-01 1:05 ` Andru Luvisi
2004-10-01 3:59 Carl Lowenstein
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