From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:27:05 +0930 Subject: [TUHS] 6-bit, 7-bit and 9-bit byte UNIXes In-Reply-To: <20040930233847.503FB379@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20040930233847.503FB379@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20040930235705.GW46815@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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 -- Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available URL: