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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: PDP-10 (was: Looking for a really odd computer)
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.214604.25320@ns.network.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 21:46:04 GMT
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In article <71383@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
[referring to the DEC PDP-10]
:I don't recall any production software that used 9-bit bytes, though at least
:one attempt at an experimental C compiler used them.

I seem to recall that the COBOL compiler used them for some modes of
character data or character numeric data.  Can't figure out why
offhand, though.
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