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From: Nigel Roles ngr@sym...
Subject: [9fans] time size
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:15:02 -0000

>We could always bring back pdp10's and their 36 bit ints.

Were you FISHing for a flame there?  I think you got a....
Nibble.  And maybe four bytes.

Hey! Leave off PDP-10s. They had 9 bit chars. We might never have needed
Unicode.