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In article <446ukm$kb9@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:

|> In comp.std.c, meissner@cygnus.com (Michael Meissner) wrote:

|> >| > 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?

|> >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).

|> Actually, the standard requires at least 8 bits to a char (I can look up
|> the exact place if there's interest).  What I could not figure out was
|> why this was done.

Probably because there was a lot of existing code which assumed 8 bit
bytes already, and the committee didn't want to break it.
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