I worked on the later CDC Cyber 170/180 machines, and yeah there was a C compiler (2, in fact). 60-bit words, 18-bit addresses and index registers, and the cho

I worked on the later CDC Cyber 170/180 machines, and yeah there was a C compiler (2, in fact). 60-bit words, 18-bit addresses and index registers, and the choice of 5-bit or 12-bit chars. The highly extended CDC Pascal dialect papered over more of this weirdness and was much less torturous to use. The Algol compiler was interesting as well. The 180 introduced a somewhat less wild, certainly more C friendly, 64-bit arch revision. There was only 1 microprocessor that DID NOT use the 8-bit byte Toshiba had a 12-bit single chip processor at one time I'm pretty sure you could make a similar claim about. More of a microcontroller for automotive that general purpose processor, tho.