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rwmj
on Aug 2, 2011
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The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake
It's not limiting on a PDP/11 though, since that could only address 64K of memory. Presumably when C/Unix was later moved up to VAXen and other 32 bit machines, the field would have been extended to 4 bytes, and today to 8 bytes.
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