[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-08-24 16:37, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

All true... However, one could always have hoped people would read 
wikipedia instead of just assuming they know... :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte

	Johnny