OT: Language for the ages

[woodelf]

Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

>>
>> You're absolutely right.
>> I like those sizes, because they're a good fit with my hardware.
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>
> ... therefore using an 18-bit int would be silly.  If you were using a 
> machine with a 9-bit byte length (not parity, actually 9 bits) then it 
> wouldn't seem such a bad idea.

Strange -- my hardware is just like that ( When I get it finshed ) .  
The PDP-10 has done that already.
Oddly this homebrew I am working can't do real C, since now C is almost 
allways 32 bit code and
I've got only a whoopping 64kb of ram. :(    I think a 20 bit int is 
also a nice size too and 10 bit bytes.

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> Gordon.