[pups] Maximum PDP-11 executable size?

[Johnny Billquist]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Edward Brocklesby wrote:

> On Friday 20 April 2001  5:49 am, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> > 	Getting 32bit programs (and MH was done on a VAX or PDP10 (which is
> > 	actually a 36 bit machine ;)) to run on a 16 bit machine is a lot of
> > 	work.
> 
> 36bit with 9bit bytes, iirc .. fun :>

Actually, the PDP-10 have variable byte size. Anything from 1 to 36
bits. Lazy people went with 9 bit bytes, while size-aware people used 7
bit bytes. And then you have SIXBIT...

	/Department for worthless knowledge. :-)
	Johnny

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