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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: sizeof
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Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 13:21:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  8 13:21:30 1985
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> I used to use
> a Honeywell mainframe.  The architecture dates back to the 60's,
> and Honeywell has kept it around in the name of upward compatibility.
> The machine is a *word* oriented machine with a 36 bit word(yes 36,
> not 32), ...
> This is what I call brain-damaged, but it is *real*, and a Honeywell
> C-compiler must put up with different types of pointers for ints and
> chars, *or* make chars 36 bits.
> -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

Not only that, but its characteristics are quoted in a table appearing
TWICE in K&R.  Therefore EVERYONE has already been warned about such
kinds of brain damage.
-- 

   Norman Diamond

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