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C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
(www.open-std.org)
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Twirrim
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17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC
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During an internship in 1986 I wrote C code for a machine with 10-bit bytes, the BBN C/70. It was a horrible experience, and the existence of the machine in the first place was due to a cosmic accident of the negative kind.
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C itself was developed on machines that had 18 bit ints.
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