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| ▲ | zabzonk 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Actually, if you were mad enough to use the feature, the Dec10 had 6-bit "bytes" - 6 to a word. |
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| ▲ | uecker 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Anyway, I do not see how this affects the design of C in a way that makes no sense anymore today (except that one could require CHAR_BIT to be eight, but there are still DSPs where this is not the case). I think people repeat the "the C design reflects the out-dated PDP-11 hardware" meme because it sounds smart while in reality it is just nonsense. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | So when is WG14 standardising modern hardware into the C standard? Basic stuff like SIMD, SIMT, without requiring users to go beyond language extensions, something that any programming language can offer in similar capacity? | | |
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| ▲ | shakna 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| On the 11, the UNIBUS was 18 bit, the program space was 16 bit, and addressing was 22 bit. So it depended if you were using I-space or D-space. |
