reading legacy floppy disks

[James Knott]

Steve Harvey wrote:

>   This was a major issue in porting System III Unix to the Honeywell
> Level 6.  Storage was addressed as 16-bit words; if you needed a
> char *, a 16-bit index was tacked onto the pointer making a grand
> total of 48 bits.  Other pointers stayed at 32 bits, which, if
> memory serves me correctly, was sizeof(long), with int being 16 bits.

Now we're getting into ancient geek.  ;-)
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