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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.lang.mod2
Subject: Re: what is a WORD?
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 22:18:11 EDT
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> The note "On the PDP-11, TSIZE(WORD) = 2,..." implies that sizes are measured
> in the size of the Smallest Addressable unit.  It would appear that a VAX
> should have 4-byte WORDS, however would this make LONGINT an 8-byte value?

Sunds like a step backwards to me. 'C' handles all the word/byte/long/etc
arithmetic for you... and Modula 2 is supposed to be higher level than that.

I hope they fix this pronto.