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From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <89@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 03:33:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 16 03:33:41 1986
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Reply-To: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: UniSoft Systems; Berkeley, CA
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In article <430@oscvax.UUCP> rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani) writes:
>I think char's are "the smallest addressable unit large enough to hold a
>character" which is almost always a "byte" (I think its bigger on Honeywells).
>I don't know if there are any guarantees about this...

One of the earliest C implementations I experimented with was on a Decsystem-20
and implemented char's as 36 bits...

-Fred