[TUHS] reviving a bit of WWB

Richard Salz rich.salz at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 12:04:56 AEST 2021


> pointer to a bit

BBN made a machine "optimized" for C.  It was used in the first generation
ARPAnet gateways.

A word was 10bits.  The amount of masking we had to do for some portable
software was unreal.
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