[self-follow-up] At 2024-10-16T19:49:43-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > When the DEC Alpha, Cray, and PA-RISC came along, a lot of C > programmers who'd been supremely confident of the, shall we say, > well-established behavior of their code were quickly disabused of some > deluded notions.
This was a bit vague. I should have said "64-bit PA-RISC", and added "SPARC64". Both were originally 32-bit architectures that widened. "Cray" is vague, too, but I honestly don't know more specifics off the top of my head. I have only the understanding that their "UNICOS" offering was reputedly the first 64-bit Unix. But maybe I should have left it out; since most hobbyist or even professional programmers didn't have the budget for a Cray in their home office, it seems not to have driven much int/pointer width-cleanliness in userspace code. That would have to wait for the workstation market to graduate past 32 bits. Regards, Branden
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