From: utzoo!decvax!cca!gwyn@Brl@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Information on Unix/Vax peculiarities Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4814 Posted: Sun Dec 12 18:24:41 1982 Received: Mon Dec 13 06:42:36 1982 From: Doug Gwyn Date: 9 Dec 82 13:11:11-EST (Thu) "long" ints were added shortly after 6th Edition UNIX. To get a long int before then, one had to have an array of 2 ints. The 6th Ed. kernel was full of this artifice.