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From: mark@applix.UUCP (Mark Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pointer alignment when int != char *
Message-ID: <564@applix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 09:39:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: applix.564
Posted: Wed Jul 29 09:39:41 1987
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Summary: I remember that one!
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In article <161@xyzzy.UUCP> throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) writes:
%
%I am aware of a seriously developed architecture where "long" was 64
%bits, and pointers were 128 bits... In
%particular, there was a universal, shared, access-protected, segmented
%address space... But all in all, a very lovely machine... Sadly,
%it is unlikely that this architecture will haunt C implementors or
%programmers.  The current fashion in computer architecture has moved
%away from many of the concepts it embodied.  Sigh.
>-- 
>Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw

Ahh, DG's unforgettable FHP machine. What a dream that was. :-)

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                                    Mark Fox
       Applix Inc., 112 Turnpike Road, Westboro, MA 01581, (617) 870-0300
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