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Subject: Re: technology discussion ? does the world need a "new" C ?
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 07:25:06 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Jul 2024 19:00:58 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
> > C assumes byte addressibility, but it doesn't assume that bytes are 8
> > bits.
> > 
> > The PDP-10 had 36-bit words and could operate on bit fields of any size
> > from 1 to 36 bits.
> 
> But it couldn’t address them.

Yes it could, but only with specific instructions (LDB ILDB DPB IDPB
IBP) not the much more varied (even weird) word and halfword insns.