Re: ****tability: Harmony between PC and microcontroller

Jack Klein wrote:
> 
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> 
> One of the things that you might not realize is that the C
> programming language was developed originally on a 16-bit
> minicomputer.  At the time Dennis was developing C, there was no
> such thing as an 8-bit microprocessor in existence.  Let alone
> 8-bit microcontrollers which evolved after the microprocessor.

Cough, hack.  Remember the PDP8?  :-)  Also the Microdata 800
series, which were less common, and 8 bit oriented.  The
microprogrammed Microdata 810 was a 16 bit (and byte) oriented
machine.  In 1968 as I recall.

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