I learned C on a VAX, then used it on 68K, ARM6, very briefly Cray (that's a weird one), x86 in segmented mode, x86 in 32-bit flat mode, and now 64-bit in vario

I learned C on a VAX, then used it on 68K, ARM6, very briefly Cray (that's a weird one), x86 in segmented mode, x86 in 32-bit flat mode, and now 64-bit in various flavors. As soon as I saw this code was using "short" and "int" I immediately knew all bets were off! The comments remind me of the VAX programmers in 1990 who wrote code assuming pointers and ints were the same size, and if yours weren't, they told you to get a "real computer".