Re: VMS

On Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:13:07 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-07-01, Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote:
 

In Kernighan & Ritchie's  "The C Programming Language", the authors
note that, on the four architectures that C had been implemented on
(at the time of writing), a char occupied 8 bits on three of them.
On the fourth, a char occupied 9 bits.

 
Sounds like a Univac 1100-series mainframe in ASCII mode.

K&R document it as "Honeywell 6000" using ASCII.
They note that int, short int, and long int were 36 bits
on that machine, as was float. double was 72 bits long.


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Lew Pitcher
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