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How big is a word?  It seems to be common practice to implement INTEGERS
and CARDINALS as 16 bit words, and use LONGINT and LONGCARD for 32 bits.
If you're developing for a 32 bit computer, would it be appropriate to make
INTEGERS and CARDINALS 32 bits and either drop longs or make them 64 bits?
I notice that Wirth writes ~usually 16 bits~ which would seem to indicate
any word size would be appropriate.  This would raise some more portability
questions.

My own opinion would be to implement 32 bit integers and such, I just wanted
to hear some other opinions.

                                                        Tom Ruby
                                                     MSRS002@ECNCDC