Computer collecting humor.

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_odin.phy.bris.ac.uk>
Date: Tue Nov 4 04:36:19 1997

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Carl R. Friend wrote:
> Shouldn't that really be a power of two, or maybe some bizarre
> permutation of 12, 16, 18, or 36?

Which reminds me. Which word lengths have been used by (binary) computers?
Off the top of my head :

4 (Intel 4004, etc)
8 (Far too many to list)
12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc)
16 (Again far too many to list)
18 (PDP1, etc)
20 (PERQ 1, PERQ 2)
24 (PERQ 4)
32 (Yep, a lot of those)
36 (PDP10, etc)

What others?


> | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston |

-tony
Received on Tue Nov 04 1997 - 04:36:19 GMT