[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update
Scott Dorsey
kludge at panix.com
Sun Jan 29 11:57:54 EST 2023
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 1/29/2023 9:32 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>
>> I think the issue is with the programming language and not with the
>> architecture. And yes, you can use bignum in C, at least under v7 Unix,
>> and store really really big numbers.
>
>So other language & OS combinations did support 32 bit
>integers on PDP-11?
That's not an integer, that's a long. And yes, many languages supported
longints on pdp-11s.
--scott
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