Pascal --> C question

[Frank Swarbrick]

Hey, I've got no problem with having a 'bit' data type!  I've been wondering
why it doesn't exist already.  It seems rather silly for boolean values
to take up a whole byte.

But I'm sure there is a good reason for this.  (There is, isn't there?  :-)

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