[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
> 

Now, where's the fun in that ???

:-)