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   On 30/08/2024 14:28, John Aldridge wrote:   
   > In article <20240829191334.570e88c7507598ffe5b28d87@eircom.net>,   
   > steveo@eircom.net says...   
   >>>> 	Portable code should only rely on the standards not   
   >>>> implementations, some very weird possibilities are legal within the   
   >>>> standard.   
   >>>   
   >>> Heh, yes. I worked for several years on a machine where a null pointer   
   >>> wasn't all bits zero, and where char* was a different size to any other   
   >>> pointer.   
   >>   
   >> 	That rings vague bells, what was it ?   
   >   
   > Prime. It was word, not byte, addressed, so a char* had to be bigger.   
   >   
   I used a Prime750 at Uni. But only undergrad tasks in Prime BASIC and   
   some Fortran. It seemed quite fast at the time in timeshare mode with   
   plenty of undergrads using it. But the CPU was only as fast as an 8MHz   
   68000!   
      
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