From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
Subject: Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !!
Date: 1997/07/10
Date: 1997-07-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868535731snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.868480535@merv
In article <dewar.868480535@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu "Robert Dewar" writes:
>So let's get back to the original thread here, what I said turns
>out to be exactly right. The normal format for strings on this machine was 5x7
> with one bit lweft over, and there was hardware support for this format. (I
>did not say it was the only format supported, just that there was hardware
> support
>for this format and that it was naturally supported in the hardware)
>
>Now back to the original point, given that --- how would you map ANSI C, given
>the claims that have been made (actually I can't find real justification
>for these claims in the ANSI standeard, and neither can Ritchie)
char types in C must be at least 8 bits wide so a 5*7 format fails at that
point. You would probably use a 4*9 format (which is also naturally
supported by the hardware).
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Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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1997-06-27 0:00 ` HELP ! need to insert value in array !! Ralph Silverman
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
[not found] ` <dewar.867554609@merv>
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-29 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Ed Hook
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Clive D.W. Feather
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Al Bowers
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Christian Froeschlin
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Alan Bowler
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Mark H. Wood
1997-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby [this message]
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
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