IBM aren't the only company with odd-sized bits - back in the 80's,
Honeywell's Multics system had a 36-bit word, made out of 9-bit bytes...

Ralph Mitchell

On 10/8/05, Alexander Lazic <al-curllibrary_at_none.at> wrote:
>
> On Fre 07.10.2005 20:09, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> >On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Brian Krings wrote:
> >
> >>I am using cURL in a C application that works fine... until I got on a
> >>64 bit SLES 9 zSeries system. My application is a 31 bit application
> >
> >Most computer architectures are 32 or 64 bits, but you have a 31 bit
> >one?
>
> Yes this is only, as I know, on Linux for zSeries.
> Imho it's a nice 'joke' from IBM ;-(
>
> Have you try to compile it for 64bit, if it possible on this platform?
>
> Greetings
>
> al ;-)
>
Received on 2005-10-09