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C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

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182 points Twirrim | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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JamesStuff ◴[17 Oct 24 23:09 UTC] No.41874737[source]▶
Not sure about that, seems pretty controversial to me. Are we forgetting about the UNIVACs?
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1. omoikane ◴[18 Oct 24 01:00 UTC] No.41875416[source]▶
This would be a great setup for a time travelling science fiction where there is some legacy UNIVAC software that needs to be debugged, and John Titor, instead of looking for an IBM 5100, came back to the year 2024 to find a pre-P3477R0 compiler.