During an internship in 1986 I wrote C code for a machine with 10-bit bytes, the BBN C/70. It was a horrible experience, and the existence of the machine in the first place was due to a cosmic accident of the negative kind.
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I've worked on a machine with 9-bit bytes (and 81-bit instructions) and others with 6-bit ones - nether has a C compiler
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Somehow this machine found its way onto The Heart of Gold in a highly improbable chain of events.
I programmed the Intel Intellivision cpu which had a 10 bit "decl". A wacky machine. It wasn't powerful enough for C.
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