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

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288 points Twirrim | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.471s | source
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pjdesno ◴[17 Oct 24 23:31 UTC] No.41874875[source]▶
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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1. kazinator ◴[18 Oct 24 02:21 UTC] No.41875834[source]▶
C itself was developed on machines that had 18 bit ints.
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2. larsbrinkhoff ◴[18 Oct 24 06:32 UTC] No.41876858[source]▶
B was developed on the PDP-7. C was developed on the PDP-11.