On 31 Jan 2012 at 14:17, schoedel at 
kw.igs.net wrote:
  The smallest unit addressable in standard C, the char,
must be at
 least 8 bits. It can be 9, or 36 for that matter. 
EXACTLY!
In the early days of the Mac, I played briefly (long enough to walk away
from) a compiler that had 16 bits as sizeof(char)