[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Jan 29 13:26:29 EST 2023


On 1/29/2023 11:57 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?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.

By integer I did not mean int but all the integer types 
(short/int/long/whatever).

Arne





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