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From: perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
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Subject: Why the C machine has 10 bit chars
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Date: Sat, 13-Aug-83 13:09:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 13 13:09:16 1983
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All I know about the BBN C machine is that they wanted to use
a basically 16-bit architecture but they didn't want to be restricted
to a 64K process size.  So they made it a 20 bit word machine
which makes its characters 10 bits each.

Robert Perlberg
New York
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