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From: ZENITH@l66a.ladc.bull.COM (ZENITH)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: porting Icon to machines with strange word sizes
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Date: 17 Jul 89 18:33:00 GMT
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_not_ a multiple of eight?  I'm entertaining the notion of porting Icon
to run on the Bull (nee Honeywell) DPS-8 architecture, under the CP-6
operating system; the salient feature of this hardware is its nine-bit
bytes (36-bit words).  Am I likely to run into any major headaches as a
result of this?
 
- Andy -