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SubjectRe: faster strcpy()
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:52:14AM -0700, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:

> >On 8086 maybe. On ARM a word is 32bits, on the DEC10 a word is 36bits
> >on the PDP8 a word is 18bits IIRC.
> ^^
> 12
>
> However, a word was 18 bits on the PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-9,
> and PDP-15.

Certain Honeywell machines also had 9 / 18 / 36 bits for char/byte,
short and int as the size.

Ralf

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