[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-24 14:19:08 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> In article <k15qr2$d0k$3 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist 
> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> 
>> However, a byte does not necessarily imply 8 bits...
> 
>    I know that, and you know that, but try to tell that to someone
>    who's whole experience is UNIX/C.

Or most anyone under the age of ~35, and that hasn't done embedded or 
related hardware work, or that hasn't worked with ancient hardware.

Ignoring the lack of C99 support 
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/inttypes.h.html> 
and <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf>  on VMS 
(where the exact-width typedefs int%_t and uint%_t (uint32_t, etc) is 
documented), VMS itself is tightly tied to eight-bit bytes.  As is 
Windows, and most other platforms.



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