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Subject: Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.
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In article <lnoc3ox2a0.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org>,
 Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:

> Making CHAR_BIT==64 would have made much more sense for the machine
> itself in isolation, but it would have made interoperability with
> other systems quite difficult.  It ran Unicos, Cray's BSDish Unix;
> I'm not sure you can even implement Unix with bytes bigger than
> 8 bits.

Could tack on a satellite machine for interoperability
the way ARPANET was first configured. Each big machine
at Illinois, etc. had a Burroughs (6600?) that actually
did the networking.

-- 
Michael Press