reading legacy floppy disks

[Mel Wilson]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:27:42AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>> When I took C at George Brown College in 1995, we could use 3.5"
>> floppies.  However, in class we used Turbo C on Windows 3.1, while at
>> home I used Borland C on OS/2, so I had to be careful about variable
>> sizes.  For example an int was 16 bits in Borland C, but only 8 in
>> Turbo.  On occasion, my code would work fine at home, but crap out in
>> class because I'd overflowed a variable.
> 
> Don't 8 bit integers violate the C standard?  I thought it required
> integer to be at least 16 bits.

This recollection is rather strange.  I'd been using Turbo C
since 1986 or so, and remember only 16-bit ints.  My version ran
on a PC clone with 8088, so 16-bits was a normal size.
In 1995 Turbo C 2.0 was my preferred small language, for writing
little one-off utilities and the like.  No hint of anything so
non-standard.

         Cheers,        Mel.
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