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288 points Twirrim | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source

1. rbanffy ◴[18 Oct 24 11:59 UTC] No.41878574[source]▶

Don't Unisys' Clearpath mainframes (still commercially available, IIRC) 36-bit word and 9-bit bytes?

OTOH, I believe C and C++ are not recommended as languages on the platform.

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