Oregon Software Pascal/2

[Simon Fryer]

Hey All,

On 10/13/06, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> Simon Fryer wrote:
> > Heya,
> > What ever happened to 24 bit words, or is this an easy case?
> That is 3 8 bit char's. :)

Or 4 x 6 bit characters. Certain parts of RTS/VOS on a Harris H1200
used a truncated ACSII to fit 4 characters into a word.

> I was thinking of Dec's machines and rememberd other brands later.
> While 24 bit computers were made, I can't think of any off hand.

Ahh. The only reason I know anything about the H1200 is that I worked
on one. As far as I know, it is still in production use!

Simon

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