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From: Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Ada And Alternate System Architectures
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:01:53 -0500
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Hi,

A very naive question...does the Ada standard adequately address
non-8-bit byte computers?  The Fortran language standard committee
consistently avoids defining anything that relates to a specific
computer architecture implementation (because what if 6-bit character
systems one day become common again...).  At a very high level, how are
machine specifics addressed?