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In article <43v9nd$4hi@caip.rutgers.edu> halasz@caip.rutgers.edu writes:

| In article <MEISSNER.95Sep22121125@tiktok.cygnus.com>, meissner@cygnus.com (Michael Meissner) writes
| > ....
| > Take it from me, implementing strict C on a word based machine is simple --
| Even a PDP-10 under TOPS-10/20 (I meant PDP-10 when I wrote PDP-11) where
| the 7-bit byte, 5 to a word, is customarie?  I suspect that on that, too,
| the implementors would uze a new or unuzual file-protocol for textfiles.

A PDP-10 with 7-bit bytes, 5 to a word, with a leftover bit could never become
standard conforming (since the standard requires that all objects be multiple
of bytes).  A PDP-10 with 4 9-bit bytes would certainly be acceptable.

| > what is difficult is getting lots of net code to run on such a machine.
| > Users are not typically interested in 'strict' C.
| Contributed software or network-handler software?

Both.
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