On Thursday, 30 September 2004 at 20:07:46 +0100, Natalia Portillo wrote: 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(a)lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.

BBN had a version of UNIX for the C/70 machine which had 10 bit bytes. This is memorialized in the "IP/TCP Implementation Status" section of the historic RFC 801 which describes the NCP to TCP transition plan, thus: APPENDIX D. IP/TCP Implementation Status Please note that the information in this section may become quickly dated. Current information on the status of IP and TCP implementations can be obtained from the file <INTERNET-NOTEBOOK>TCP-IP-STATUS.TXT on ISIF. BBN C70 UNIX Date: 18 Nov 1981 From: Rob Gurwitz <gurwitz at BBN-RSM> The C/70 processor is a BBN-designed system with a native instruction set oriented toward executing the C language. It supports UNIX Version 7 and provides for user processes with a 20-bit address space. The TCP/IP implementation for the C/70 was ported from the BBN VAX TCP/IP, and shares all of its features. This version of TCP/IP is running experimentally at BBN, but is still under development. Performance tuning is underway, to make it more compatible with the C/70's memory management system. [ ... ]