On Fri, 17 May 2013 07:24:48 -0700, Lloyd Fuller wrote:
>You have to look at where C was originally designed to run. It was designed
>for
>the DEC PDP8. Those were SMALL in resources machines. Later versions of C
>were
>built on the PDP11s, but Richie and crew started out on the PDP8. And, yes, C
>was designed to be a middle-level language.
>
Wikipedia tends to confirm my recollection of PDP-7:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29#History
... not quite as restrictive as PDP-8. Hmmm... IIRC, PDP-7 was ones-complement
word-addressed machine (18-bit words). I wonder when C acquired its dependency
on 2's complement and addressing storage by characters?
-- gil
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