Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : John Aldridge
From : mm0fmf
Date : Fri Aug 30 2024 15:39:26

On 30/08/2024 14:28, John Aldridge wrote:
> In article <20240829191334.570e88c7507598ffe5b28d87@eircom.net>,
> steveo@eircom.net says...
>>>> 	Portable code should only rely on the standards not
>>>> implementations, some very weird possibilities are legal within the
>>>> standard.
>>>
>>> Heh, yes. I worked for several years on a machine where a null pointer
>>> wasn't all bits zero, and where char* was a different size to any other
>>> pointer.
>>
>> 	That rings vague bells, what was it ?
>
> Prime. It was word, not byte, addressed, so a char* had to be bigger.
>
I used a Prime750 at Uni. But only undergrad tasks in Prime BASIC and
some Fortran. It seemed quite fast at the time in timeshare mode with
plenty of undergrads using it. But the CPU was only as fast as an 8MHz
68000!

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