From: drb@ihatespam.msu.edu   
      
    >  > [As I recall the Prime machines addressed 16 bit words.  What did you do   
    >  > for character pointers? -John]   
      
   See pdf pages 42 and 43 here:   
      
   https://sysovl.info/pages/blobs/prime/programmercompanion/Pocket   
   20Guide%20Assembly%20Language%20Rev%2018%20FDR3340%201980.pdf   
      
   for details on the pointer formats.   
      
   De   
   [The Prime machines suffered from having too many versions of   
   everything.  Page 41 of that quick reference card has a 48 bit pointer   
   format with a bit number in the low 16 bits.  It seems unlikely that a   
   C compiler would use that as a general pointer format since it doesn't   
   fit in any sort of normal int, and it's not what you'd want to point   
   at an int or a function or anything bigger than a char. -John]   
      
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