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

Martin Ambuhl wrote:
> CBFalconer wrote:
>> Jack Klein wrote:
>> .... snip ...
>>> 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?  :-)
> 
> Cough, hack.  The PDP-8 and PDP-5 were 12 bit machines.

Exactly.  Those are not exactly 16 bit minicomputers.

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