8 Nov
2017
8 Nov
'17
9:42 p.m.
Ø The PDP-10 had arbitrarily sized byte pointers! Did anybody ever implement a C compiler
on that hardware?
I don’t recall a DEC 10 (or PDP-6) C compiler, but such certainly did exist on the UNIVAC
1100 which had a similar arbitrary partial word format.
The Univac never could decide what the character set was, be it ASCII (in 7, 8, or 9 bits)
or FIELDDATA (six bits).
I don’t care what they say.
36-bits is here to stay!