[plorkyeran]

TI DSPs with 16-bit char are still being made. It's a niche thing that most people will never need to care about, but it's not just a historical quirk and definitely not "no system ever".

[int_19h]

Then there's SHARC with its 32-bit char.

Do architectures like that have non-freestanding C implementations, though? It's kinda moot if there's no getchar()...