I've always wondered if someone wrote a close-to-the-metal C compiler for the CDC 6400.
60 bit words, 18 and 60 bit registers, 6 bit characters.
60 bit words, 18 and 60 bit registers, 6 bit characters.
It would interesting to see a CDC 6400 implementation of "like C, but we ignore the bit about character set and also the part where the compiler is a evil genie trying to screw you over", though.