* [TUHS] re: 6-bit, 7-bit and 9-bit byte UNIXes
@ 2004-10-04 1:56 dmr
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Greg Lemis wondered,
> 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.
That one was a C implementation under GCOS. There
was another 9-bit one for the PDP-10 (not using Unix).
There was a 4x9 bit version of Unix for the Univac 1100
series, which ran Unix as a guest system over the
native EXEC OS.
The most exotic version was the BBN C-machine, which
had 20-bit words, 10-bit bytes.
Dennis
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